The Mystery of the Empty Room (1915)
While on a hunting trip, Ruth Harris and her father stop overnight at Scroogles' Inn, a dreary place kept by an evil, grasping old couple who have a poor little drudge of a girl who lives in her own imaginary land and thinks that Ruth is a beautiful fairy princess. That night the Scroogles creep into her father's room, rob him, and thinking him dead, throw the body over a cliff. They remove everything from the room and in the morning when Ruth inquires for her father, they tell her she is crazy, she came alone to the Inn. Bewildered, she doesn't know what to do until she thinks of Richard Foster, a young artist she had met earlier in the day. She tells him, and with his help, they find a cap belonging to her father, and accuse the Scroogles of foul play. Rendered desperate, the old couple attempt a dash for freedom, but in the ensuing fight, Scroogles accidentally shoots and kills his wife and escapes into the woods. After a running fight he is shot. He dies as a result of the wound and Ruth and Foster, now engaged, search for her father. They find him wandering dazedly about the mountains, but after careful nursing he fully recovers from his terrible experience, and Mr. Harris takes the little drudge into his home and adopts her. But the memory of that "empty room" in the old Inn is indelibly impressed upon Ruth's memory, and many times she gives thanks for the narrow escape they all had.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Cortland Van Deusen | Director |
| Alice A. Methley | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Dangman | |
| Ethel Corcoran | |
| John Costello | |
| Alice Lake |
