"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.
An international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
Crítico retrato social de la Viena en los días posteriores a la Primera Guerra Mundial que provocó cierto escándalo por el realismo y el atrevimiento de sus imágenes. Fue una de las primeras películas en las que intervino Greta Garbo.
