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The Knotted Cord (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Knotted Cord (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

For months the Knotted Cord Gang left a wake of death. Two millionaires had been strangled and beside their dead bodies the police found a knotted cord. Neilson, a young detective, worked night and day on the case. One day he received the ...See moreFor months the Knotted Cord Gang left a wake of death. Two millionaires had been strangled and beside their dead bodies the police found a knotted cord. Neilson, a young detective, worked night and day on the case. One day he received the sign, the knotted cord that always warned of the death to come. That same day another millionaire was threatened with death. Neilson went to the chief of police and asked the supercilious head of the force if he was going to work with or against him. The chief said that he would accompany the young detective to the millionaire's house, but did not believe that any harm would be done as the residence was surrounded with police. At the millionaire's home Neilson met the daughter of the millionaire, and the greatest incentive of all came into his life. A policeman on guard before the library door told them that no one entered the library for two hours and the millionaire was at work inside. The young detective knocked at the door. There was no response. He burst open the door. And inside the millionaire was dead strangled by the knotted cord of death. The police were baffled. But the keen eyes of the young detective found the clever way the murderer had secured admission. Under the great grand-father's clock in the corner the floor had been cut away. A furnace man was missing and he had been gone an hour before the police discovered the murder. Wildly they went on his trail. When the young detective left the millionaire's daughter, after doing all he could to alleviate her grief, to start upon the trail the crafty power of the gang was shown. The girl's maid was their agent. She told them all that had happened. The young detective's secretary carried word to the chief of the murderers. And when the detective, by clever work almost trapped the maid the jealous chief of police frustrated him. The plotters resolved on a bold stroke. They gave the maid instructions to imitate the daughter's voice, call the detective on the phone and lure him to the Old Hill shack. The young detective got the message. He rushed to his car and in. But in a sleigh that was waiting the arch criminals waited to see that their plan worked. They saw him rush from the house and into his car. His secretary came after watched him off, then joined them. The snow and a shorter route gave the plotters time to set their trap. They caught him, and in the lonely shack prepared for him a crafty deathtrap that would enable them to be far away and out of danger when he was murdered. But their desire for vengeance over-reached itself. The girl was to be told where to find the detective when it was too late. But she got the word in time and went hurriedly to the rescue. But at the last minute of time, she was thrown head-long from the sleigh, and lay unconscious on the road. At the shack the detective's secretary burst in, released him, and then threw up his hands at the order of the police chief. The detective smiled, and puts his arm around his secretary's shoulder. "He only pretended to betray me so I could round up the whole gang," he explained. "We had to be careful every minute for fear of spies." Then the girl came in, her arm broken her face white with fear for the safety of the man who had been the one ray of light in the darkness that had come into her life. He ran to her, put his arms about her. In her eyes he saw the thing he wished to see. In answer to her look of joyous surprise at seeing him safe he smiled. "I knew it was a plant when they pretended to telephone from a place like this," he explained. And in strong cells the members of the gang who had been caught in the city by the secretary and the police before they came to the rescue, cursed fate, and the young detective. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Bert Delaney Robert Neilson, a Detective Robert Neilson, a Detective See fewer	The Net (1916)
Ernest C. Warde Richard Van Dyke, a Millionaire Richard Van Dyke, a Millionaire See fewer	King Lear (1916)
Mignon Anderson Portia VAn Dyke, His Daughter Portia VAn Dyke, His Daughter See fewer	The Mill on the Floss (1915)
Yale Benner Chief of the Knotted Cord Gang Chief of the Knotted Cord Gang See fewer	Vanity Fair (1915)
William P. Burt Bob North, Detective's Secretary (as William Burt) Bob North, Detective's Secretary (as William Burt) See fewer	Her Father's Gold (1916)