Secrets of the Night

The story

At a lavish house party, bank president Robert Andrews stages his own “murder” to distract a visiting bank examiner from uncovering a shortage, setting off a whodunit where nearly everyone has a motive. The investigation spirals until Andrews is found alive and admits the frame-up—after the deficit is repaid. A silent black-and-white Universal mystery-melodrama-comedy directed by Herbert Blaché; long thought lost, a print resurfaced in 2017.

Cast & crew

James KirkwoodRobert Andrews

Madge BellamyAnne Maynard

Zasu PittsCelia Stebbins

Rosemary ThebyMargaret Knowles

Tom WilsonThomas Jefferson White

Tom RickettsJerry Hammond

Arthur Stuart HullLester Knowles

Tom GuiseCol. James Constance

Edward Cecil

Edward CecilAlfred Austin

Frederick Cole

Frederick ColeFreddy Hammond

Joseph SingletonCharles

Otto HoffmanCoroner