The Witching Hour
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William D. Taylor
Director
Elliott Dexter
Jack Brookfield
Winter Hall
Judge Prentice
Ruth Renick
Viola Campbell
Robert Cain
Frank Hardmuth
Edward Sutherland
Clay Whipple
Film Details
Release Date
Apr
10,
1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Witching Hour by Augustus Thomas (1907).
Synopsis
While Jack Brookfield is entertaining guests at his gambling house in Louisville, young Clay Whipple, who is obsessed by a fear of cat's-eye jewels, is taunted by Tom Denning with a scarfpin and kills him. Clay, who loves Viola, Brookfield's niece, is then tried and sentenced to death. Brookfield visits Judge Prentice and convinces him that Clay is entitled to a retrial; and he exposes Hardmuth, an attorney seeking the gubernatorial nomination, as involved in the governor-elect's murder. Hardmuth tries to shoot Brookfield, but the latter, through mental suggestion, thwarts him, and in the second trial Clay is acquitted. He is later reunited with the woman he loves.
Director
William D. Taylor
Director
Cast
Elliott Dexter
Jack Brookfield
Winter Hall
Judge Prentice
Ruth Renick
Viola Campbell
Robert Cain
Frank Hardmuth
Edward Sutherland
Clay Whipple
Mary Alden
Helen Whipple
Fred Turner
Lew Ellinger
Genevieve Blinn
Mrs. Campbell
Charles West
Tom Denning
L. M. Wells
Judge Henderson
Clarence Geldert
Colonel Bailey
Jim Blackwell
Harvey
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Apr
10,
1921
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Witching Hour by Augustus Thomas (1907).
