The Night Message

{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Night Message | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Perley Poore Sheehan | producer = | screenplay = Raymond L. Schrock Perley Poore Sheehan | starring = Howard Truesdale Gladys Hulette Charles Cruz Margaret Seddon Norman Rankow Robert Gordon | music = | cinematography = Jackson Rose | editing = | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{Film date|1924|3|17}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}

'''''The Night Message''''' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Perley Poore Sheehan and written by Raymond L. Schrock and Perley Poore Sheehan. The film stars Howard Truesdale, Gladys Hulette, Charles Cruz, Margaret Seddon, Norman Rankow, and Robert Gordon. The film was released on March 17, 1924, by Universal Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498969/the-night-message |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109234918/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498969/The-Night-Message/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |title=The Night Message (1924) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |date= |access-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Janiss Garza |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/night-message-v103945 |title=Night Message (1924) |publisher=AllMovie |date= |accessdate=November 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/10973 |title=The Night Message |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |date= |accessdate=November 2, 2018}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="ETR">{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''The Night Message'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume= |issue= |pages=27 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=5 April 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n378/mode/1up |accessdate=3 November 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> the Lefferts and Longstreet families live in a southern mountain region and are enemies. Elsie Lefferts and Lee Longstreet are sweethearts Old Man Lefferts favors the suit of telegraph operator Lem Beeman. The latter, while hunting, accididentally shoots Elsie's brother, Harney. Lee is blamed for the killing and is arrested and sentenced to death. The telegraph wires are down in a storm when Lem decides to confess. He reaches the prison in time to save Lee but is himself killed. The lovers are reunited.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Howard Truesdale as 'Old Man' Lefferts *Gladys Hulette as Elsie Lefferts *Charles Cruz as Lee Longstreet *Margaret Seddon as Mrs. Longstreet *Norman Rankow as Harney Lefferts *Robert Gordon as Hank Lefferts *Edgar Kennedy as Lem Beeman *Joseph W. Girard as Gov. Pringle }}

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0015176|The Night Message}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Night Message}} Category:1924 films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American silent drama films Category:1924 drama films Category:Universal Pictures films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1924 American films Category:English-language drama films