Word: lafe
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...last two acts have at least the virtue of holding fast one's attention. The action depends on the villainous Frank Devereaux's efforts to seduce innocent women and the resultant triangle of false suspicion, threats, and "evidence." In a struggle for his revolver, Devereaux is shot by "Lafe" Regan, whose wife is in the next room--she having visited Devereaux for the purpose of protecting her daughter. Regan arranges everything to look like suicide, leaves the room and locks the door on the outside, thereby imprisoning his wife. Here appears the "Sign on the door"; he fastens...