The Surprises of an Empty Hotel
The Surprises of an Empty Hotel
1916, English. Directed by Theodore Marston.
Regular guest Francis Marchmont visiting the seaside Hotel Continental, now mostly deserted due to a diphtheria epidemic, meets and befriends a mysterious woman, "Mrs. Lucie Fairbanks," only to discover she and another woman are rivals, both common-law claimants to the fortune of his hated enemy, the late copper magnate Thomas Cadwallader Bennet, leading to a night of intrigue and mistaken identities in the empty hotel.
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- 0h 40m
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- English
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- 7 February 1916
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The Surprises of an Empty Hotel isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 7 February 1916. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Surprises of an Empty Hotel?
The Surprises of an Empty Hotel (1916) was directed by Theodore Marston and stars Charles Richman, Leo Delaney, Charles Eldridge.