Secrets of the Night

Overview

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.

Cast

James Kirkwood

Robert Andrews

Madge Bellamy

Anne Maynard

Zasu Pitts

Celia Stebbins

Rosemary Theby

Margaret Knowles

Tom Wilson

Thomas Jefferson White

Tom Ricketts

Jerry Hammond

Arthur Stuart Hull

Lester Knowles

Tom Guise

Col. James Constance

N/A

Edward Cecil

Alfred Austin

N/A

Frederick Cole

Freddy Hammond

Joseph Singleton

Charles

Otto Hoffman

Coroner