The Haunted House (1911)
Cabel Davis, a miserly old skinflint, holds a mortgage on a house belonging to Samuel Perkins, and is scheming to buy it cheap. Perkins is poor and has a handsome daughter, Mary. Davis calls and insists on the payment of money due and Perkins tells him he cannot meet the obligation. Davis leaves, threatening him. The old miser conceives a cunning plan to prevent the mortgaged house from being rented, and makes visits to the old house, using a sheet and emitting hideous noises to convince the villagers that the house is haunted. The place is visited by several, who go away terror-stricken, as the old miser takes a black cat up through the cellar-way and shows it through the window. In the meantime, Milton Dawson, a young station agent, meets Mary Perkins and falls in love with her. He learns from the people in the village that the Perkins house is haunted. He decides to do a little investigating, and trails Davis to the house and sees him enter through the cellar. Young Dawson follows and sees the old villain drape himself with a sheet and step out on the roof. He follows and finds Davis on the roof with a crowd below, scared out of their wits. The old man appears with the sheet draped about him. Dawson steps out, and grabbing him, snatches off the sheet and exposes the fraud to the gaze of those horrified below. Davis is brought down on the sward and confesses his nefarious scheme, and is despised by all his neighbors. So penitent is he that he writes a release of the mortgage in the presence of the crowd when in danger of bodily injury. Dawson takes the paper to Perkins and astonishes him by his revelations. He is very grateful and summons Mary and it is all explained to her. Dawson is not satisfied with thanks and takes the shy young girl in his arms and she is not offended.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William F. Haddock | Director |
| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| King Baggot |
