Secrets of the Night (1924)
Overview
At a lavish house party, bank president Robert Andrews stages his own “murder” to distract a visiting bank examiner from uncovering a shortage, setting off a whodunit where nearly everyone has a motive. The investigation spirals until Andrews is found alive and admits the frame-up—after the deficit is repaid. A silent black-and-white Universal mystery-melodrama-comedy directed by Herbert Blaché; long thought lost, a print resurfaced in 2017.
Cast
James Kirkwood
Robert Andrews
Madge Bellamy
Anne Maynard
Zasu Pitts
Celia Stebbins
Rosemary Theby
Margaret Knowles
Tom Wilson
Thomas Jefferson White
Tom Ricketts
Jerry Hammond
Arthur Stuart Hull
Lester Knowles
Tom Guise
Col. James Constance
Joseph Singleton
Charles
Otto Hoffman
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