The City of Terrible Night - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Wealthy bachelor Jack has become blasé and craves some unusual excitement. On the suggestion of his friend Jones, he leaves home in the midst of a social function and sallies forth into the highways and byways of the meaner section of the ...See moreWealthy bachelor Jack has become blasé and craves some unusual excitement. On the suggestion of his friend Jones, he leaves home in the midst of a social function and sallies forth into the highways and byways of the meaner section of the great city. At a cheap dance hall he protects a beautiful young girl who, by her refined, quiet ways, has aroused the enmity of the other females present; by doing so, he involves himself in a fist fight in which he emerges victorious. He escorts the young girl home, which her father resents. Her father is an exiled foreign nobleman who is eking out a precarious living for himself and Olga, his daughter. Jack tries to reason with him, which only further arouses the old man's ire and he attempts to thrash Jack with his walking stick. Jack takes it from him, breaks it over his knee, and departs. This incident is seen by a passing policeman, who at the termination of the fracas, stops and questions the young man. Jack makes light of the incident, gives the officer his card and a cigar, and starts for home. Upon thinking the matter over he determines to return to the little shop, and make the old man listen to him. Rudolph, Olga's father, receives a letter threatening his life for the part he has played in a revolution in his native country. Jack arrived at the shop, just in time to intercept the writer of the letter who a moment before had consummated his threat by stabbing Rudolph to death. There is a fight during which Jack gives the assassin a terrific blow on the head. The latter escapes, but Jack is arrested and accused of the crime. He is handcuffed and led to the station house, but on the way he knocks over the arresting officer, and escapes to the house of his friend, Jones. The latter not only relieves him of his manacles but supplies him with a disguise enabling him to reach his own house undetected. Nevertheless detectives discover his hiding place, and he and his faithful valet are arrested and thrown in jail. In the interim the real assassin, delirious from the blow Jack gave him, is arrested by a policeman who thinks him drunk. He is placed in the same cell with Jack's valet and the latter, listening to the man's delirious babbling, discovers him to be the murderer. Jack is released, and later he and Olga are married. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less