Knowles’ room following a series of mysterious happenings. Andrews courts death as his insurance money will cover the shortage. Andrews quarrels with young Hammond (Ricketts), who is in love with his ward, Anne Maynard (Bellamy), and also with Lester Knowles (Hull), who is jealous of the friendship between Andrews and his wife Margaret (Theby). Plot Īs described in a review in a film magazine, Robert Andrews (Kirkwood), president of a bank, invites the bank examiner and several directors to his home for a house party in order to keep him from examining the books and discovering a big shortage. The film was thought lost until a print of the film was rediscovered in a basement in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2017. It was adapted from the play The Nightcap written by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. The black-and-white “ murder mystery-melodrama comedy” stars James Kirkwood Sr., Madge Bellamy, and ZaSu Pitts. Secrets of the Night is a 1924 American silent film directed by Herbert Blaché and made at Universal Pictures.
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