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  • The Haunting Symphony (1916)
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The Haunting Symphony (1916)
Short | Short, Drama
Dr. Andrew Smiley, a brain specialist and a hypnotist, is the guardian of Wilfred and Marcie Redmond, brother and sister, and both rich in their own right. Smiley wishes to marry Marcia, as he is badly in need of money, but when he ...See moreDr. Andrew Smiley, a brain specialist and a hypnotist, is the guardian of Wilfred and Marcie Redmond, brother and sister, and both rich in their own right. Smiley wishes to marry Marcia, as he is badly in need of money, but when he proposes she rejects him. Smiley has a secret mistress in Sarah Kayton, the head nurse of his sanitarium, and she has borne him a son, Paul Kayton, who is Smiley's secretary, without knowledge of the fact that his employer is his father. Wilfred Redmond, a musical genius, writes a musical composition which his sister Marcia calls "The Haunted Symphony." Wilfred incurs the enmity of Paul, who loves Marcia also. That same night Norman Brice, a student of mental science and a musician, is injured in his laboratory by a chemical explosion and on his way home he is overcome by temporary blindness. He is forced to appeal to a drunken passerby for assistance and the intoxicated man leads him to the wrong house, which proves to be Dr. Smiley's sanitarium. His key fits the door and he feels his way up the stairs to the second floor, thinking he is in his own home and intending to 'phone his physician. Dr. Barstow. At this instant Wilfred is murdered in a mysterious manner, and Marcia, coming upon his body, loses her reason and her memory. Brice, the blinded man, hears her screams and bursts into the room. He stumbles over the body of Wilfred and in groping about finds a photo on the table which he clutches in his hand as he rushes from the house in an agony of horror. When Brice recovers his sight and reason several days later he finds himself in a hospital under the care of his friend, Dr. Barstow, and in the papers he reads of the murder of Wilfred Redmond and the confession of his sister, Marcia, who seems to have lost her reason and memory. Comparing the newspaper cut of Marcia with the photo in his possession Brice knows that he was in the room just after the murder was committed and he realizes that this Marcia Redmond was the girl whose screams he heard. He falls in love with the photo, and feeling that she is innocent of the crime he determines to solve the mystery and clear her name. The coroner has adjudged Marcia insane and committed her to the care of her guardian in his sanitarium. Brice has Dr. Barstow commit him to the sanitarium as a patient suffering with melancholia. There he finds a copy of "The Haunted Symphony" and with the aid of the melody he recalls Marcia's memory and proves Dr. Smiley to be the real murderer. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Robert Broadwell
Producer
David Horsley
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Updated Jul 29, 1916
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Jul 29, 1916 (United States)

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