The Black Box
(1915) American
B&W : Serial / 15 episodes
Directed by Otis Turner

Cast: Herbert Rawlinson [Sanford Quest], Anna Little (Ann Little) [Lenore MacDougal], William Worthington [Professor Ashleigh; and Lord Ashleigh], Mark Fenton [police officer], Laura Oakley [Laura], Frank MacQuarrie [Craig], Frank Lloyd [Ian MacDouglas], Helen Wright [Mrs. Reinholdt], Beatrice Van [Ashleigh’s daughter], Hilda Sloman (Hylda Hollis), J. Edwin Brown

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Otis Turner. Scenario by Otis Turner, from a screen story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. / 15 episodes: [1] “An Apartment House Mystery,” released 8 March 1915; [2] “The Hidden Hands”; [3] “The Pocket Wireless”; [4] “An Old Grudge”; [5] “On the Rack”; [6] “The Unseen Terror”; [7] “The House of Mystery”; [8] “The Inherited Sin”; [9] “Lost in London”; [10] “The Ship of Horror”; [11] “A Desert Vengeance”; [12] “’Neath Iron Wheels”; [13] “Tongues of Flame”; [14] “A Bolt from the Blue”; [15] “The Black Box.” / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost : A print exists in the Filmoteca Espanola film archive [episode 11].

Keywords: Apartments - Escapes - Secret doors - Serials - United Kingdom: England: London

Listing updated: 28 April 2009.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 42, 55; Lahue-Continued pp. 30-31, 160-161, 283; Stedman-Serials p. 47 : ClasIm-204 p. 16 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.