Paul LeniCast
Laura La Plante 
Montagu Love 
Roy D'Arcy
Credits
Written by: Wadsworth Camp
Plot
A murder in a Broadway theatre is revisited years later by a director who restages the production to catch the killer.
Sinekatalog’s take
Paul Leni's late silent thriller has a director restaging a Broadway theatre play years after a murder to trap the killer. Atmospheric and gothic, with trick shots, it is a creaky but lively old-dark-house-style mystery.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (1,035 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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