Secrets of the Night (1924)
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.
- Released
- 1924-11-12
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Comedy
- Runtime
- 64 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Herbert Blaché
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- James Kirkwood as Robert Andrews
- Madge Bellamy as Anne Maynard
- Zasu Pitts as Celia Stebbins
- Rosemary Theby as Margaret Knowles
- Tom Wilson as Thomas Jefferson White
- Tom Ricketts as Jerry Hammond
- Arthur Stuart Hull as Lester Knowles
- Tom Guise as Col. James Constance
- Edward Cecil as Alfred Austin
- Frederick Cole as Freddy Hammond
- Joseph Singleton as Charles
- Otto Hoffman as Coroner
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