A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: Yvonne Delva [Helen O’Neil], Creighton Hale [Willy Grosby], Marie Shotwell [Madame LaGrange], Christine Mayo [Mrs. Philip Mason], Suzanne Colbert [Helen Trent], George Denoubourg [Edward Wales], Marc McDermott [Stephen Lee], Walter Law [Inspector Donohue], Fraunie French Fraunholz

Acme Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by Léonce Perret, from the play The Thirteenth Chair by Bayard Veiller. Cinematography by Alfred Ortlieb. / © 23 August 1919 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LU14110]. Released 31 August 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Delva’s film debut. The film was remade by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation as The Thirteenth Chair (1929).

Drama: Mystery.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Blackmail, Murder - Death: Murder, Suicide - Families: Brother-sister relationships, Mother-daughter relationships

Listing updated: 2 December 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.