Film
The Surprises of an Empty Hotel
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.
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.
Cast
- Charles RichmanFrancis Trehurn Marchmont
- Leo DelaneyCharles Manders
- Charles EldridgeThomas Cadwallader Bennt
- William R. DunnAlfred the Count
- Robert GaillardHenry Barclay
- Arline PrettyLucie Bennt
- Ethel CorcoranBirdie Jameson
