- PI Stu lensing brand-new silent flicker while battling gaggle of greedy heirs? Ex-screen goddess tabs Stu to spend whatever's necessary for a silent masterpiece, including rounding up her elderly former crew & cast-mates. Her adult children fear amateur mogul Stu will blow their inheritance, so they cast their own crew of experts, to prove Lucinda Lane's lost her marbles. Carhop Kookie wants a role in the spectacular too - reasoning he's a jumble of jerky moves already.—David Stevens
- Henry Lane hires Stuart on behalf of his wealthy aunt, former silent screen star Lucinda Lane for a rather odd assignment: she wants to do a lavish and expensive silent remake of her 1922 silent screen classic, Foolish Girl, with Stuart not only to locate and hire its director Harkness Jones, scenarist Roderick Delaquois and leading man Bramwell Stone for the remake, but also to be the movie's producer despite he knowing nothing about the movie business. Stuart locating the three is difficult enough as each never could make the transition into talkies and now lead low key and in some cases poor lives, but his job becomes even more difficult when she subsequently wants to rehire much of the remaining surviving cast and crew from the original production as well. Stuart believes the project is pure folly in today's day and age especially as Lucinda throws around money without much thought, but largely follows her directives in his affection for her. It isn't until he is well ensconced in the job that Stuart learns that Henry, his cousin Charles Lane and their respective wives have ulterior motives in hiring him: they want Stuart's reports to show that Lucinda is crazy so that they can have her committed in an effort to take control of her estate before she squanders away all her money on the film, her estate that is most-likely deeded to them anyway. Charles has further motives as he is deep in debt to a loan shark the result of his gambling. Stuart is between a rock and hard place as her directives to him thus far may indeed be evidence that Lucinda is no longer in possession of her faculties, while he cannot legally or morally go against Henry in being his client who has done nothing of a criminal nature. In the process of protecting Lucinda, Stuart also has to learn who he can and cannot trust within her entourage, including her personal secretary, Marsha Frome, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Link Cowan.—Huggo
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