The Face on the Ceiling - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Dick Wells, a young detective, is put on the trail of Buck Ryan, a kind of Fagin. Disguised as a crook, Wells becomes a member of Ryan's gang, and meets the criminal's daughter, Elsie. Though each deplores the fact that the other is ...See moreDick Wells, a young detective, is put on the trail of Buck Ryan, a kind of Fagin. Disguised as a crook, Wells becomes a member of Ryan's gang, and meets the criminal's daughter, Elsie. Though each deplores the fact that the other is dishonest, as they suppose, Wells and Elsie fall in love. The detective is on the point of trapping the entire pang, when "Squint" McGowan, released from Sing Sing, recognizes in Wells the policeman who sent him up. He informs Ryan who his young accomplice really is. Elsie overhears her father plotting with the other thieves to bind Wells hand and foot and then asphyxiate him. Realizing who this Dick Wells is, she tries to get away to warn him, but Ryan, suspicious of her actions, imprisons her in a store-room. In desperation, the girl tears long strips from bolts of silk, which the thieves have hidden in the store-room, and lights them from the gas jet. By hanging these out of the window she attracts the attention of the police, who raid the place and rescue her and Wells. Ryan makes his escape. After Wells and Elsie are married, he returns, intending to murder them. In crawling through a trap door in the roof, his coat catches, and unable to free himself, he hangs there till he dies. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less