The Face in the Dark (1918)
1h
Running Time
April 15, 1918Release Date
Plot.
Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent to work when her sweetheart, Richard Grant, is accused of robbing a bank. Her father, now a bank examiner, works in collusion with two thieves who are acquainted with a master criminal known only as "the Face in the Dark." When the evidence implicates her father in the robbery, Jane confronts him, and although Richard is released from jail, Ridgeway escapes. The two crooks lead him to the Face in the Dark, but as the two men are shaking hands, the place is raided by Secret Service agents who arrest the mysterious criminal and congratulate Ridgeway for his fine detective work. Jane is happily reunited with her sweetheart and her father.
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Cast & Crew.

Mae Marsh
Jane Ridgeway

Niles Welch
Richard Grant

Alec B. Francis
Charles Ridgeway

Hobart Henley
Director

Samuel Goldwyn
Producer

Harry Myers
Jim Weaver

Donald Hall
Nixon

Irvin S. Cobb
Writer

Joseph W. Smiley
CharlesHammond

J.C. Bitzer
Cinematography

Isabel Lamon
Rosalind Hammond

Alice Wilson
Mrs. Hammond

Willard Dashiell
Actor

Tom Bret
Writer
Details.
Wiki.
The Face in the Dark is a 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Hobart Henley and starring Mae Marsh, Niles Welch and Alec B. Francis. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hugo Ballin.