The Surprises of an Empty Hotel (1916)

• Drama

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.

Rating

8 / 10 (1 votes)

Release date

February 7, 1916

Runtime

40m

Language

English

Director

Theodore Marston

Status

Released