The Man from Beyond

And yet, somehow also a friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's, who he actually featured in one of his silent movies.

He made a film in 1922 called The Man from Beyond, which has a strong spiritualist theme.

And at the end of the third reel, Conan Doyle comes in and reads passages from his book.

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But he loved it.

He went on to self-publish two more films to mixed reviews, The Man from Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service.

If you trust the biographers, these are failures.

These are flops.