Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and The last laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.

1st work (Blackmail): After a young woman accidentally kills a man in self-defense, she finds herself the target of a blackmail scheme. 2nd work (Sabotage): An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.

"Sherlock Holmes baffled: Originally shown in Mutoscope machines in arcades, this very early silent short is the earliest known film to feature Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the leaping fish: Silent with added sound, starring Douglas Fairbanks as scientific detective Coke Ennyday. The dying detective: Silent. Sherlock Holmes knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really...

The master mystery: Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric...