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Seven Keys to Baldpate is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Hugh Ford released in USA on 16 october 1917 with Anna Q. Nilsson

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917)

Seven Keys to Baldpate
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Released in USA 16 october 1917
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Crime
Rating59% 2.9819452.9819452.9819452.9819452.981945

Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1917 American silent mystery/thriller film produced by George M. Cohan and distributed by Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount. The film is based on Cohan's play of the novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Cohan himself stars in this silent version along with Anna Q. Nilsson and Hedda Hopper, billed under her real name Elda Furry. One version of the play preceded this movie in 1916 and numerous versions followed in the succeeding decades such as the early RKO talkie starring Richard Dix.

Seven Keys to Baldpate is an extant film with much home video availability.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, George Washington Magee (Cohan) bets a companion $5,000 that he can write a bestseller in twenty-four hours. He goes to a isolated summer hotel in the mountains, receives the only key to the place, and sets about his task. Soon he is interrupted by complications as guests arrive, unexpected and uninvited, each with their own key to the deserted hotel. Two hundred thousand dollars gets deposited in the hotel safe, a young woman is shot, and, while the author hold the crooks at bay waiting for the police to arrive, they cook up a scheme to turn the tables on George. The woman's body disappears from the room, and the crooks are marched off to prison by U.S. Secret Service men. The caretaker returns the following night and congratulates the author on his success, and a lady reporter capitulates under the smiles of the industrious writer.

Actors

Anna Q. Nilsson

(Mary Norton)George M. Cohan

(George Washington Magee)Hedda Hopper

(Myra Thornhill (as Elda Furry))Warren Cook

(Thomas Hayden (as C. Warren Cook))Purnell Pratt

(John Bland)
And :
Joseph Smiley
Russell Bassett
Frank Losee
Robert Dudley
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