Mystery ·Crime ·Comedy ·Horror · United States of America · 1922 · 2h 23m

One Exciting Night

Director

Cast

Carol Dempster as Agnes Harrington Henry Hull as John Fairfax Morgan Wallace as J. Wilson Rockmaine Margaret Dale as Mrs. Harrington Frank Wunderlee as Samuel Jones Porter Strong as Romeo Washington

Crew

Hendrik Sartov — Director of Photography Irving B. Ruby — Director of Photography D.W. Griffith — Story D.W. Griffith — Producer

Tagline

Their love dream sweeps the Boy and the Girl into the perilous maelstrom of secret mystery, creeping figures, peering eyes and clutching hands. Suspected, shadowed, accused-Then they find each other.

Synopsis

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.

Key Collaborators

D.W. Griffith Director Hendrik Sartov Director of Photography Irving B. Ruby Director of Photography D.W. Griffith Story D.W. Griffith Producer

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