A young woman who believes a recluse millionaire has kidnapped and for eighteen years has held prisoner another young woman, tries to prove her suspicion by searching the millionaire's estate. Her quest leads her into numerous hazardous adventures and into a romance with a young officer of state troops.

In the pantheon of silent-era suspense, few works encapsulate the transition from Victorian melodrama to the modern thriller as vibrantly as the 1925 iteration of The Green Arche...
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Spencer Gordon Bennet

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Frank Leon Smith, Edgar Wallace
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1925 · IMDb —


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