The Mystery of the Sealed Art Gallery (1914)
Hamilton Cleek was spending a week at the home of his fiancée. His every thought was foreign to crime, when he was called to the phone by Superintendent Narkom. A peculiar robbery had been committed in the home of Parovitch, a famous African traveler. Cleek consented to meet Narkom at Parovitch's residence. Arriving there he discovered that a valuable necklace had suddenly disappeared from a box in the art gallery. Cleek examined the entire house and his suspicions centered upon Parovitch's son, only to be upset by a remark of the maid that she had been startled the night before by meeting a giant monkey. Cleek reexamined the gallery, and noticing several sprays of fern on the floor, set about accounting for them, when he came upon the necklace hidden in a fern pot near the door. Notwithstanding a peculiarity in the baseboard of the room, he discovered that one of the picture frames covered a secret entrance. Examination of the adjoining room brought the revelation that the blind nephew was not blind, but sat in his room calmly reading. Cleek communicated his findings to Narkom and arranged for him to enter the nephew's room when all the others were gathered in the art gallery. The trap was carefully laid. After convincing Parovitch of his nephew's duplicity Cleek confronted the boy with the necklace and accused him of taking it. The nephew denied the accusation. Cleek stepped to the wall and extinguished the lights. To everyone's surprise, when the lights were again turned on the nephew had disappeared. In a moment Superintendent Narkom entered the secret entrance leading the "blind" boy, handcuffed. The boy's ingenuity was proven as Narkom carried the suit of monkey clothes which he had worn as a disguise.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George Lessey | Director |
| Thomas W. Hanshew | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ben F. Wilson | |
| Gertrude McCoy | |
| Robert Brower | |
| Edward Boulden |
