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The Witching Hour (1921)

Directed by William Desmond Taylor

Overview

Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat’s eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of the murder. The psychic persuades the judge to grant the condemned man a retrial, and he sets out to uncover the identity of the real killer, during which time he manages to prevent a second murder from occurring.

Length 82 minutes

Actors

Elliott Dexter | Winter Hall | Ruth Renick | Robert Cain | A. Edward Sutherland | Mary Alden | F.A. Turner | Genevieve Blinn