The Circular Staircase (1915)

Directed by

Edward LeSaint

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

50 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and her nephew rent a country house for the summer. Strange events and a murder in the house lead them to uncover a family secret.

old-fashionedmysteriousquietlow-keytheatricalslowsuspensefuldated

What happens

The Circular Staircase is a 1915 mystery silent film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Guy Oliver, Eugenie Besserrer, and Stella Razeto. The film was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company. It is based on the mystery novel of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which was originally published in five parts starting with the November 1907 issue of All-Story magazine. The film is now lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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