The Mysterious Cipher

Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director J. Gunnis Davis

Status Released

Release Date 1916-06-24

Storyline

Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blanding, the tool of Chilton and his partner, awaits at Lone Point a telegram giving the number of the car.