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[The Mystery of 13 Hill Street]
Also known as The Mystery of 13 Hill Street in the USA
(1914) (unknown)
B&W : Three reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Film Releases of America in February 1914. The film was rereleased in the USA as The Mystery of 13 Hill Street by Box Office Attractions Company in March 1914.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Barry Hill, leader of a band of desperadoes, by fraud obtains a position of trust in a bank. He sends a false cipher message to an associate bank instructing them to send $25,000 by automobile immediately. With accomplices be watches for the automobile to start from the bank. They pursue cautiously. The mechanism of the first automobile has been tampered with, and so timed that the break will come when the occupants are in a lonely, isolated district. Luckily for the conspirators, a band of gypsies by the roadside gives them opportunity. When the chauffeur and the guard get out of the car containing the treasure, one of the bandits steals the treasure and diverts suspicion by accusing a young gypsy standing by. The guard puts him under arrest and speeds onward, hoping to later learn, by enforced confession, the whereabouts of the treasure. Zara, the sweetheart of the accused gypsy, divines that his accusers were the real thieves. She gallops after and overtakes them. She shouts to the occupants of the car that the men ahead are the real thieves. A train approaches and the thieves cross just in time. The nose of the engine just brushes Zara as she hurdles the crossing rails. She is grasped by the thieves as she gallops by and is dragged from the horse into the automobile. She is taken captive to No. 13 Hill Street, a notoriously bad neighborhood. As she hears a movement of the thieves in the room below, with a knife she scrapes a hole through the floor, and sees them hide the treasure in the floor. The police when notified do not believe that the young gypsy is guilty. They find evidence of Hill’s work, who escapes and joins his accomplices at Hill Street. By the imprint of a blotter, the police learn that he has an engagement that night at the Red Lion Inn. They have also learned that 13 Hill Street is the probable rendezvous of the gang. They are interested in a pile of sawdust lying on top of a table. Looking upward they see a hole in the floor of the room above, two eyes peering through. The girl reveals the hiding-place of the stolen money. The police raid the Red Lion Inn. Hill almost escapes after a series of daring feats, and an exciting race on a motorcycle. He finally dives off a high bridge, only to be captured later by the police, who man a motor boat. The gypsy is released to enjoy the love of the girl whose efforts liberated him
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown); Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 August 2025.
References: MoPicNews-19140404 p. 16 : Website-IMDb.
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