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The Million Dollar Mystery is a american film of genre Adventure released in USA on 2 january 1914 with Florence La Badie

The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)

The Million Dollar Mystery
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Released in USA 2 january 1914
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure
Rating60% 3.005873.005873.005873.005873.00587

The Million Dollar Mystery is a 23-chapter film serial, released in 1914, directed by Howell Hansel, and starring Florence La Badie and James Cruze.

Synopsis

A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior to the beginning of the first reel. Baby Florence is left at a boarding school with a note and half a bracelet instructing that her father will come to take her back upon her eighteenth birthday. Hargreaves, here played by Alfred Norton, is chased by the Black Hundred, but he receives a note and money before attempting to escape by balloon on the top of a building. The balloon is shot down and the first chapter ends.

Actors

Florence La Badie

(Florence Gray Hargreave)Marguerite Snow

(Countess Olga Petroff)James Cruze

(Jim Norton - Newspaper Reporter)Frank Farrington

(Braine - a Conspirator)Sidney Bracey

(Jones - Hargreave's Butler / Stanley Hargreave)
And :
Lila Chester
Creighton Hale
Irving Cummings
Mitchell Lewis
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