The Haunted Bedroom
About The Haunted Bedroom
Jean Germaine’s father will not let him marry Lizette Rouget without a dowry of 10,000 francs. She has saved. Her brother Paul, a gambler with a bad heart, takes the money to the tables, wins, and is waylaid on the way home. He hides at an inn, seals the money in an envelope addressed to her, and dies before he can deliver it. Jean has left her. Paul’s ghost stays in the inn bedroom to keep the envelope out of the wrong hands. Herbert Prior is Jean. Mabel Trunnelle is Lizette. Augustus Phillips is Paul.
Cast & crew
More about The Haunted Bedroom
An Edison one-reel mystery of 1913. No director is named on the credits consulted. Jack Strong, Harry B. Eytinge, Harry Linson, Harry Beaumont, and Carlton S. King are also billed. One listing times it at 11 minutes. An Internet Archive copy is filed as TheHauntedBedroom1913.
Themes
Making
Edison uses the ghost as a guard on an envelope, not as a figure who speaks. The bedroom is the last set because that is where the money stopped.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The dowry figure is 10,000 francs.
- Paul addresses the envelope to Lizette Rouget before he dies.
- A shorter plot note says he is stabbed in a brawl after losing her savings. The longer synopsis has him win, then die of the chase and his heart.
- Roy Kinnard’s Horror in Silent Films lists the short.
Scenes
- Paul seals the winnings in an envelope with Lizette’s name.
- He dies at the inn before the letter can leave.
- The bedroom stays haunted so the money will not be taken.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheHauntedBedroom1913)