The White Alley (1916)
Justine Arnold gives a house party at his summer home. Among his guests are Ernest Chapin, Cambell Crosby, his cousin and attorney, and Emery Gale, Crosby's law partner. All three fall in love with Dorothy Duncan Arnold's fiancée, and she flirts with them. Crosby and Gale return to the city. The following night Arnold discovers Chapin asking Dorothy to marry him. Arnold tells Dorothy to consider their engagement broken. She retires to her room, leaving the two men in a heated quarrel. Next morning Arnold is missing. Several days elapse before his body is found in a huge brick oven in the basement. At the inquest evidence is introduced which implicates Dorothy, and she is accused. Chapin, to shield her, declares he killed Arnold. He is put in prison. Stone, a detective, is hired by Dorothy. The discovery of a white alley by Stone leads to a confession by Cambell Crosby. On the night Arnold and Chapin quarreled had Crosby returned from the city and gained entrance to the house from the roof, lowering himself through a crevice which he and Arnold had played in when boys. After stabbing Arnold he had disposed of his body in the brick oven His object was to gain possession of Arnold's estate to which he was sole heir. As he finishes his confession he takes poison,
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Beaumont | Director |
| Carolyn Wells | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry Beaumont | |
| Betty Burbridge | |
| Ernest Maupain | |
| Edward Arnold |
