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The Wraith of Haddon Towers is a american film of genre Horror directed by Arthur Maude with Arthur Maude

The Wraith of Haddon Towers (1916)

The Wraith of Haddon Towers
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Length 35minutes
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OriginUSA
Genres Horror

The Wraith of Haddon Towers is a 1916 silent movie that is considered to be one of the first in the genre of horror films.

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Phillip Drummond (Arthur Maude) is summoned from America to England to attend the bedside of his dying uncle, the Baron Drummond. Upon arriving at the castle where the baron lives, Phillip learns that he has a long-dead ancestor, also named Phillip Drummond, whose murder a century earlier is still a mystery. In a room of the castle that is always kept locked, he encounters the female spirit (Constance Crawley) of his dead ancestor's past lover. Phillip's interest in the paranormal leads him to seek out the haunts of this ghost, during which he finds out that he himself is actually the reincarnation of the former Phillip Drummond. His

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