Name: Creaking Stairs
Released: 1919
Cast: Mary Maclaren, Herbert Prior, Jack Mulhall, Clarissa Selwyn, Lucretia Harris

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Dearie

Release Date

Feb 10, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with roué Mark Winfield. When she confesses, Fred forgives her, and they marry and live happily in a modest home until the owner, who turns out to be Winfield, comes to collect a delinquent payment and suddenly dies. Dearie, afraid that the absent Fred will misunderstand, hides the body with the help of a boarder and a cook until midnight when they carry it down the stairs to the countryside, but the creaking of the steps is heard by Fred. After the police find the body and the suspicious Fred finds Winfield's hat under a couch, he opens Dearie's private trunk and discovers the fancy clothes that Winfield gave her. Furious, Fred chops with an ax through the closet door behind which Dearie hides. After Dearie pleadingly says that she kept the clothes for Fred to admire and that Winfield died from a heart attack, Fred forgives her and they begin life anew.