The Solution to the Mystery [SEP] distributor
The Solution to the Mystery
The Solution to the Mystery is a 1915 short film produced by the American Film Manufacturing Company, released by Mutual Film and directed by B. Reeves Eason.
Cast.
- Vivian Rich as Bessie Mitchell
- Roy Stewart as James T. Willard
- Charles Newton as Wilbur Mitchell
- Gayne Whitman as Franklyn Davis
-received by audiences and critics alike.
Reception.
Weir recalled that when the film was first screened in the United States, American audiences were disturbed by the fact that the mystery remained unsolved. According to Weir, "One distributor threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of it, because he'd wasted two hours of his life—a mystery without a goddamn solution!" Critic Vincent Canby noted this reaction among audiences in a 1979 review of the film, in which he discussed the film's