The Menace of the Mute (1915)
50m
Running Time
November 5, 1915Release Date
The Menace of the Mute (1915)
50m
Running Time
November 5, 1915Release Date
Plot.
Young Edyth Vail, believes her fiancé Allen Morris may have committed a murder, asking Ashton Kirk to investigate the crime. The fiancé admits he went to the David Hume's home to retrieve plans for a submarine, invented by his scientist father and stolen by the murdered man, but Allen claims he left the home before retrieving the plans. Kirk uses a train conductor's punch ticket to discover the identity of the murderers, one of whom is mute, and sets a trap to apprehend the suspects.
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Cast & Crew.
Arnold Daly
Ashton-Kirk / Producer
Sheldon Lewis
David Hume
Louise Rutter
Edyth Vail
William Hartigan
Allen Morris
Charles Laite
Pendleton
Martin Sabine
George D. Melville
Ashley Miller
Director
John Thomas McIntyre
Story
Details.
This Movie Is About.
lost film
Wiki.
The Menace of the Mute is a 1915 American silent film based on a short story by John T. McIntyre. It is the second film in the “Ashton-Kirk, Investigator” series, preceded by An Affair of Three Nations, and followed by The House of Fear. As with the first film in this series, it was directed by Ashley Miller and Arnold Daly, with Daly producing as well. The film is presumed lost.