Secrets of the Night (1924)
64 min
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.
- Release date
- December 11, 1924
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- James Kirkwood as Robert Andrews
- Madge Bellamy as Anne Maynard
- Tom Ricketts as Jerry Hammond
- Tom Guise as Colonel James Constance
- Arthur Stuart Hull as Lester Knowles
- Edward Cecil as Alfred Austin
- Frederick Cole as Freddy Hammond
- Rosemary Theby as Margaret Knowles
- Zasu Pitts as Celia Stebbins
- Tom Wilson as Thomas Jefferson White
Crew
- Herbert Blaché · Director
- Guy Bolton · Writer
- Max Marcin · Writer
- Edward J. Montagne · Writer
- Marian Ainslee · Writer
- Gilbert Warrenton · Cinematographer
- Harold McLernon · Editor