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Behind the Curtain (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Behind the Curtain (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Francis Benedict is called away on a business trip to Chicago, leaving his young wife in New York. His friend, Norman Reynolds, offers to look after her and entertain her during his absence. After his departure we see the Benedict library ...See moreFrancis Benedict is called away on a business trip to Chicago, leaving his young wife in New York. His friend, Norman Reynolds, offers to look after her and entertain her during his absence. After his departure we see the Benedict library about midnight. Dugan, a burglar, enters through a bay window and floors the butler with a blackjack. Dugan ties and gags the butler and then carries him into a closet. He is about to begin operations on the wall safe when he hears an auto horn and conceals himself again behind the window curtain. Mrs. Benedict and Reynold return to her home from the opera and Reynolds, intent on winning her love, extracts the cartridges from a revolver in a drawer in Mrs. Benedict's library table and puts them in his pocket. Then he puts the revolver back and shuts the drawer. Meanwhile, Dugan, having seen Norman extract the cartridges from the revolver, decides to queer his game. So he removes the revolver from the library drawer and substitutes his own loaded weapon, putting the unloaded pistol in his pocket. Mrs. Benedict returns to the parlor with Norman, who now begins to make love in earnest. Mrs. Benedict fights him off and runs to the desk and pulls out the loaded revolver. When she points the revolver at Norman, he, believing it to be unloaded, only laughs at her. To save her honor, she pulls the trigger. Norman drops to the floor mortally wounded. Dugan opens the window and disappears. The butler believes the burglar shot Reynolds and tells the police of the assault. Mrs. Benedict is thus saved from dishonor and the public disgrace of a murder trial. Written by Copyright Description from Library of Congress See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
C.C. Stevenson Mr. Benedict Mr. Benedict See fewer	Behind the Curtain (1916)
Dorothy Phillips Mrs. Benedict Mrs. Benedict See fewer	Broadway Love (1918)
Frank Smith Norman Reynolds Norman Reynolds See fewer	A Strange Disappearance (1915)
Allen Holubar The Butler (as Allen J. Holubar) The Butler (as Allen J. Holubar) See fewer	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)