Secrets of the Night

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.

• Herbert BlachéDirector
• Edward J. MontagneWriter

• James KirkwoodRobert Andrews
• Madge BellamyAnne Maynard
• Zasu PittsCelia Stebbins
• Rosemary ThebyMargaret Knowles
• Tom WilsonThomas Jefferson White
• Tom RickettsJerry Hammond
• Arthur Stuart HullLester Knowles
• Tom GuiseCol. James Constance
• Edward CecilAlfred Austin
• Frederick ColeFreddy Hammond
• Joseph SingletonCharles
• Otto HoffmanCoroner