{{short description|1915 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = The Lost House | image = The Lost House 1915.png | caption = Still in ''Reel Life'' captioned "Ford and Dosia Leaped into the Waiting Life-net" | director = Christy Cabanne | producer = | writer = Richard Harding Davis<br>Anita Loos | starring = Lillian Gish | cinematography = William Fildew | editing = | studio = Majestic Motion Picture Company | distributor = Mutual Film | released = {{film date|1915|3|25}} | runtime = 40 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent with English intertitles }}
'''''The Lost House''''' is a lost<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Lost House |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7052/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012450/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7052/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2025-08-10 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> 1915 American short drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Lillian Gish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LostHouse1915.html|title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List|website=www.silentera.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X44SqEVU2r4C&q=%22The+Lost+House%22+%22Lillian+Gish%22&pg=PA99|title=Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life|first=Charles|last=Affron|date=March 12, 2002|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520234345|access-date=October 24, 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref>
== Plot == According to a film magazine, "Dosia Dale, a young Kentucky heiress and her uncle's ward, arrives in a hotel heavily veiled, and apparently ill. She is under subjection to her uncle who calls in Dr. Protheroe, crook and charlatan. The uncle has spent Dosia's fortune. As the time for turning it over approaches he proposes marriage to save himself. She refuses indignantly. Balked, he schemes with Protheroe to do away with her. Protheroe's house is in a street devoted to insane asylums. There Dosia is locked in an upper room. She manages to slip a note through the window bars, but as that is a trick of the insane the police pay no attention. Ford, a reporter, sees the note, learns Dosia Dale, an heiress, soon to come of age, has been traveling with her uncle, and investigates.
The finder of the note cannot locate the house it came from. Inquiries develop denials only. Finally, hiring a street piano, Ford plays "My Old Kentucky Home" in the street till a glove drops from a window of the third house from the corner."I'm a naval officer suffering from a nervous breakdown." he later explains to Protheroe and is given a room. He discovers the girl, but is attacked by Protheroe and Dosia's uncle. He barricades himself in. knowing his pal. Cuthbert will bring the police at twelve if the two are not safely out. The police come, and Protheroe and the uncle open fire. Rifles and machine guns begin popping. As Ford and Dosia plight their troth, the house catches fire and they escape over the roof, leaping through the flames into the fire net below. Behind them Protheroe and Dosia's uncle both are shot to death."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Lost House I Majestic — Four Parts |url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy/movingpicturewor23newy_djvu.txt |website=Moving Picture Wolrd |date=March 27, 1915}}{{source-attribution}}</ref>
==Cast== * Lillian Gish as Dosia Dale * Wallace Reid as Ford * F. A. Turner as Dosia's uncle * Elmer Clifton as Cuthbert * Allan Sears as Dr. Protheroe (as A.D. Sears)
== Preservation == With no holdings located in archives, ''The Lost House'' is considered a lost film.<ref name=":0" />
==See also== * Lillian Gish filmography * Wallace Reid Filmography
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0005650}}
{{Christy Cabanne}} {{Anita Loos}}
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