
A series of 12 2-reel mystery thrillers, each story complete in itself. Episode titles: #1: The Strangler's Cord (1915); #2: The Disappearing Necklace (1915); #3: The Secret Code (1915); #4: The Riddle of the Rings (1915); #5: The Substituted Jewel (1915); #6: A Double Identity (1915); #7: The False Clue (1915); #8: When Thieves Fall Out (1915); #9: Under Oath (1915); #10: _The Wolf's Prey (1915)_; #11: The Man on Watch (1915); #12: The Man in Irons (1915).

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Gaslight never looked so venomous as in Mysteries of the Grand Hotel, a twelve-shot revolver of a serial that MGM’s publicity boys in ’15 dubbed “a connoisseur’s cobra bite.” Each pull of the trigger lasts scarcely twenty minutes, yet the fang marks stay raised on your psyche long after the pianist’s final discordant...

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" Gaslight never looked so venomous as in Mysteries of the Grand Hotel, a twelve-shot revolver of a serial that MGM’s publicity boys in ’15 dubbed “a connoisseur’s cobra bite.” Each pull of the trigger lasts scarcely twenty minutes, yet the fang marks stay raised on your psyche long after the pianist’s final discordant chord. Architecture of Anxiety Forget the polite proscenium of Shore Acres or the moral algebra of John Redmond, the Evangelist. Here the hotel is a carnivorous kaleidoscope: st..."


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