Suspense


1919

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Screencraft Pictures, Inc.; A Frank Reicher Production
Distribution Company
Independent Sales Corp. through Film Clearing House, Inc.; Ten-Twenty-Thirty Series
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Suspense by Isabel Ostrander (New York, 1918).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

Synopsis

After Rear Admiral Jeremy West is dismissed because plans entrusted to him for the country's security have disappeared, he collapses and is taken to a sanitarium. West's daughter Ruth overhears his secretary, Alfred Trimble, plot with a man named Wolvert, and tracks them to the Fifth Avenue address of Mrs. Marcia Vanderhold. Masquerading as her friend Betty, Ruth becomes a stenographer for the Associated War Charities, of which Mrs. Vanderhold is president. After Ruth's aunt hires Herbert Ross, a young detective, to find her, Ruth becomes Mrs. Vanderhold's personal secretary. When the previous secretary is found dead, Ruth refuses Herbert's offer of help, and accompanies Mrs. Vanderhold to her Long Island villa, where Trimble arrives with a man called "His Excellency." After Ruth learns that the plans are hidden in a wall safe, she chloroforms Wolvert and recovers them. When Trimble recognizes her, Ruth knocks a lamp over and shots flash in the darkness. Herbert turns the light on, and Ruth embraces him. The crooks are arrested, West is reinstated, and Ruth accepts Herbert's proposal.

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Screencraft Pictures, Inc.; A Frank Reicher Production
Distribution Company
Independent Sales Corp. through Film Clearing House, Inc.; Ten-Twenty-Thirty Series
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Suspense by Isabel Ostrander (New York, 1918).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

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Notes

Sources conflict concerning the production company of this film; news items refer to it as Frank Reicher's first film as an independent producer, while some entries in the 1921 MPSD refer to the film as a Screencraft production. No reviews were located for the film.