The Surprises of an Empty Hotel (1916)
Regular guest Francis Marchmont visiting the seaside Hotel Continental, now mostly deserted due to a diphtheria epidemic, meets and befriends a mysterious woman, "Mrs. Lucie Fairbanks," only to discover she and another woman are rivals, both common-law claimants to the fortune of his hated enemy, the late copper magnate Thomas Cadwallader Bennet, leading to a night of intrigue and mistaken identities in the empty hotel.
Director: Theodore Marston
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Charles Richman as Francis Trehurn Marchmont |
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Leo Delaney as Charles Manders |
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Charles Eldridge as Thomas Cadwallader Bennt |
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William R. Dunn as Alfred the Count |
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Robert Gaillard as Henry Barclay |
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Arline Pretty as Lucie Bennt |
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Ethel Corcoran as Birdie Jameson |
| Directing | Theodore Marston | Director |
| Writing | Jasper Ewing Brady | Scenario Writer |
| Writing | Archibald Clavering Gunter | Novel |
