The House of Hate is a 1918 film serial directed by George B. Seitz

George B. Seitz

George Brackett Seitz was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:*The Perils of Pauline *The Exploits of Elaine...

, produced when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 35,345. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, the borough is the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge...

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The film is now considered to be lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

. The Fort Lee Film Commission has found that this film exists at least in part in a film archive in Moscow, Russia. The Russian archivists sent the Fort Lee Film Commission a video transfer of existing footage of this film including that of Pearl White

Pearl White

Pearl Fay White was an American film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.-Early life:...

 atop Cliffhanger Point on the Hudson Palisades.

Plot

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know.

Cast

• Pearl White
  Pearl White
  Pearl Fay White was an American film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.-Early life:...
  
   - Pearl Grant
• Antonio Moreno
  Antonio Moreno
  Antonio "Tony" Moreno was a notable Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.- Biography :...
  
   - Harry Gresham
• Peggy Shanor - Naomi Walden
• J.H. Gilmour - Winthrop Walden (as John Gilmour)
• John Webb Dillon
  John Webb Dillon
  John Webb Dillon was an English actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1911 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Romeo and Juliet...
  
   - Haynes Walden
• Floyd Buckley
  Floyd Buckley
  Floyd Buckley was an American film and radio actor. He appeared in 15 films between 1914 and 1953. During the 1930s, he was the voice of Popeye the Sailor on the radio. He was born in Chatham New York and died in New York,New York.-External links:...
  
  
• Paul Dillon
• Joe Cuny
• Paul Clerget
• Ruby Hoffman
• Helene Chadwick
  Helene Chadwick
  Helene Chadwick was an American actress in silent motion pictures and in early sound films.-Early life and career:Chadwick was born in the small town of Chadwicks, New York, which was named for her grandfather...
  
  
• Louis Wolheim
  Louis Wolheim
  Louis Wolheim was an American character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his rugged visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish. He was also a mathematics...
  
  
• Paul Panzer
  Paul Panzer
  Paul Panzer was a German-American silent film actor. He appeared in 333 films between 1905 and 1952. Panzer was best known for playing Koerner/Raymond Owen in The Perils of Pauline....