The House of Silence


1918

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 8, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Marcel Levignet by Elwyn Alfred Barron (New York, 1906).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

Synopsis

A young woman, disheveled and greatly distressed, stops criminologist Marcel Levington on the street and begs him to find a doctor for a man who is dying inside a nearby house of ill repute. Marcel and his friend, Dr. Rogers, enter the house and find the man, a prominent lawyer, dead, his heart pierced by a hatpin that the doctor recognizes as the one he recently gave his daughter Toinette. Rogers announces that the man has died of heart failure, returns home and demands an explanation from his daughter, who explains that she was lured into the house and attacked by the man. Realizing that Toinette killed the lawyer to defend her honor, Rogers and Marcel agree to protect her. Marcel retrieves Toinette's pocketbook from the proprietor of the house, Mrs. Clifton, who had planned to blackmail the girl, and then returns to Toinette, with whom he has fallen in love.

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 8, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Marcel Levignet by Elwyn Alfred Barron (New York, 1906).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

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Notes

Although reviews call Wallace Reid's character "Marcel Levignet," the continuity in the Paramount studio records lists the name as "Marcel Levington."