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The Black Pearl (1928 film)

The Black Pearl is a 1928 American silent mystery film directed by Scott Pembroke and starring Lila Lee, Ray Hallor and Carl Stockdale. It is based on a 1912 novel titled The Black Pearl by Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow, with a plot very similar to that of Wilkie Collins' 1868 novel The Moonstone. Both novels involved a mystery around a jewel stolen from an Indian idol that carries a horrible curse.

Synopsis
A black pearl stolen from an Indian idol is reputedly cursed. After Silas Lathrop inherits it, he receives threatening messages and is marked for death. He gathers around him all of the members of his family for the reading of his will. There follows a mystery much in the "old dark house" genre. After several murders, a detective named Bertram Chisholm solves the case. ==Cast==
Cast
Lila Lee as Eugenie Bromley • Ray Hallor as Robert Lathrop • Carl Stockdale as Ethelbert / Bertram Chisolm, the detective • Howard Lorenz as Dr. Drake • Adele Watson as Sarah Runyan • Thomas A. Curran as Silas Lathrop • Sybil Grove as Miss Sheen • Lew Short as Eugene Bromley • George B. French as Stephen Runyan • Joseph Belmont as Wiggenbottom • Art Rowlands as Claude Lathrop ==References==
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