A Trade Secret
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
William Haddock
Frederic De Belleville
Betty Marshall
Marshall W. Taggart
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A chemist discovers a process of manufacturing synthetic quinine. His Japanese servant, really an agent for the drug trust, steals the formula, and after a number of episodes, the chemist's fiancée recovers the paper. The chemist retires for safety to his palatial houseboat, which the Japanese servant blows up. [The incomplete plot information available on this film indicates that it included fist fights, automobile duels and a motorboat race. The ending of the film has not been determined from this information.]
Director
William Haddock
Film Details
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Notes
During the filming of a scene in this film at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, an explosion went off prematurely. Betty Marshall and Frederic de Belleville were both thrown into the water and injured. The boat containing the scene's three cameramen capsized and, although they were rescued, their cameras were lost. De Belleville played the rest of his scenes with his shoulder in a plaster cast. No reviews for this film have been located. July 1, 1915 was the date mentioned in ads as the planned release date.
