The Surprises of an Empty Hotel(1916)

🎬40 min
📅1916-02-07
🎭Drama

Overview

Regular guest Francis Marchmont visiting the seaside Hotel Continental, now mostly deserted due to a diphtheria epidemic, meets and befriends a mysterious woman, "Mrs. Lucie Fairbanks," only to discover she and another woman are rivals, both common-law claimants to the fortune of his hated enemy, the late copper magnate Thomas Cadwallader Bennet, leading to a night of intrigue and mistaken identities in the empty hotel.

Production

Vitagraph Company of America

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Cast

Charles Richman
as Francis Trehurn Marchmont
Leo Delaney
as Charles Manders
Charles Eldridge
as Thomas Cadwallader Bennt
William R. Dunn
as Alfred the Count
Robert Gaillard
as Henry Barclay
Arline Pretty
as Lucie Bennt
Ethel Corcoran
as Birdie Jameson