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The Screened Vault (1917)
Short | Mystery, Short

The Screened Vault (1917)

Short | Mystery, Short

Grant, police reporter on the New York Chronicle, visits his bank to make a deposit. While filling out his deposit slip a piece of plaster falls from the ceiling to the desk. As he passes out and across the street he happens to look up at ...See moreGrant, police reporter on the New York Chronicle, visits his bank to make a deposit. While filling out his deposit slip a piece of plaster falls from the ceiling to the desk. As he passes out and across the street he happens to look up at the window of an office directly over the banking rooms. A shade is hastily drawn by a young woman. Grant, his suspicions aroused, proceeds to the second floor. He knocks just as the silhouette of a woman's head is revealed on the ground glass of the door. On his way to the office he meets Maddox, a detective, and tells him his suspicions. Maddox laughs. A daylight attempt to rob the bank. Only one crook on record, Chris Monk, would have the nerve to attempt it and he is lying low. Grant digs up some old clippings concerning this clever safecracker. One of them pictures Inez Monk obtaining a parole for her father. His suspicions confirmed, at six that evening Grant returns to the bank. He discovers a hole cut in the floor of the room above the bank, but is caught by the crooks and tied up. Monk descends into the bank below by means of a rope ladder, bearing a painted screen to set up before the vault door and so trick the watchman peering in from the street. Inez stands guard in the hall. Grant, left alone, begins to work at his hands. He manages to reach the telephone and jiggles a Morse code message to Central. Maddox responds with the reserves. Monk and Jimson are trapped in the bank building. Grant is now called upon for a supreme test of his nerve. Monk leaps through the window, across a narrow ledge to a building opposite before which a scaffold has been left, and starts to slide down a rope to his freedom. Grant leaps to the scaffolding, and seeing that his prisoner will escape, makes the big leap to the ground and luckily lands on a sand pile. He has no difficulty holding Monk until the detectives handcuff him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
George Larkin Tom Grant - Police Reporter Tom Grant - Police Reporter See fewer	The Lurking Peril (1919)
Ollie Kirby Inez Monk (as Ollie Kirkby) Inez Monk (as Ollie Kirkby) See fewer	Midnight Secrets (1924)
Robert Ellis Chris Monk Chris Monk See fewer	The Tiger's Trail (1919)
Harry Gordon Jimson Jimson See fewer	Grant, Police Reporter (1916)
Cyril Courtney Maddox Maddox See fewer	Grant, Police Reporter (1916)