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Under Suspicion (1918)

Under Suspicion poster
Directed by
William Senderling Davis
Genre
silent film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedy mystery from the silent era. It follows characters entangled in a case involving valuable diamonds based on a short story.

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What happens

Under Suspicion is a 1918 American silent film comedy-mystery directed by Will S. Davis and starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. Based upon the short story "The Woolworth Diamonds" by Hugh C. Weir that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, it was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. This is a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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