Name: The Mystery of Number 47
Released: 1917
Cast: Ralph Herz, Nellie Hartley, Louiszita Valentine, Edgar Murray Jr., James Fulton

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jun 4, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Selig Polyscope Co.; A Red Seal Play

Distribution Company

K-E-S-E Service

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Mystery of Number 47 by Joseph Storer Clouston (New York, 1911).

Synopsis

Irwin Molyneux, a collector of china, is regarded by his friends and neighbors as a model citizen until the night his cook resigns and his wife elects to do the cooking herself to entertain their guest, the Bishop of Bedford. Attempting to hide the fact that his wife is actually doing her own cooking, Molyneux alibis that she is away visiting. This arouses the bishop's suspicions, and soon after, Molyneux finds himself accused of murdering his wife and cook and sought after by Scotland Yard. He finally unravels the mystery when, under an assumed name, he is hired by a London newspaper to find himself. Molyneux then produces his wife, alive and well and discovers that his cook is actually the sweetheart of Lord Francis Phillamore, and hence the concern over her disappearance.