Secrets of the Night
About Secrets of the Night
At a house party, bank president Robert Andrews stages his own murder so a visiting examiner will not find a shortage. Almost everyone has a motive, and the inquiry runs away from him. Andrews is found alive and admits the frame. The deficit has been repaid.
Cast & crew
More about Secrets of the Night
Herbert Blaché directed this black-and-white Universal mystery-melodrama comedy. It opened on 11 December 1924. James Kirkwood Sr., Madge Bellamy, and ZaSu Pitts star. The script comes from the play The Nightcap by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. Wikidata times it at 64 minutes.
Themes
Preservation
Thought lost until a print was found in a Mississauga basement in 2017.
Notes
- It was treated as lost until a print turned up in a basement in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2017.
- The fake corpse is the bank president himself.
- The Internet Archive identifier is silent-secrets-of-the-night.
Scenes
- Andrews lets the party believe he has been murdered so the examiner will look the other way.
- He is found alive and admits the frame, after the missing money has been put back.
Influenced by
- Guy Bolton and Max Marcin's play The Nightcap
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-secrets-of-the-night)
