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.
Director: Herbert Blaché
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James Kirkwood as Robert Andrews |
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Madge Bellamy as Anne Maynard |
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Zasu Pitts as Celia Stebbins |
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Rosemary Theby as Margaret Knowles |
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Tom Wilson as Thomas Jefferson White |
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Tom Ricketts as Jerry Hammond |
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Arthur Stuart Hull as Lester Knowles |
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Tom Guise as Col. James Constance |
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Edward Cecil as Alfred Austin |
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Frederick Cole as Freddy Hammond |
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Joseph Singleton as Charles |
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Otto Hoffman as Coroner |
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Anton Vaverka as Joshua Brown |
| Editing | Harold McLernon | Editor |
| Art | Elmer Sheeley | Art Direction |
| Camera | Gilbert Warrenton | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Herbert Blaché | Director |
| Writing | Max Marcin | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Edward J. Montagne | Writer |
| Writing | Guy Bolton | Theatre Play |
