Silence
About Silence
Jim Warren is about to hang for killing Harry Silvers, and a 1904 flashback shows his marriage to Norma Drake ruled invalid, her arrest with stolen money, and his bargain to marry saloon owner Millie Burke. Norma, thinking he has left her, marries Phil Powers. Years later their daughter shoots Silvers with Jim's gun when he insults her dead mother. She confesses at the hanging, Phil backs her, and a jury clears her.
Cast & crew
More about Silence
Rupert Julian directed for De Mille Pictures, and Producers Distributing Corporation released it on 25 April 1926. The AFI Catalog gives 7,518 feet and eight reels, names Max Marcin as the author, and Wikidata names Bertram Millhauser as writer, with sets by Max Parker. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival lists a 70-minute 35mm print.
Themes
Preservation
Wikipedia reports a print rediscovered in 2016 after the film had been treated as lost. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival holds a 70-minute 35mm copy. Another print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- H. B. Warner plays Jim Warren. Vera Reynolds plays Norma Drake and, later, the daughter. Rockliffe Fellowes is Phil Powers. Raymond Hatton is Harry Silvers. Virginia Pearson is Millie Burke. Jack Mulhall is the attorney Lawrence.
- Cinema Corporation of America copyrighted it on 19 April 1926 as LP22697.
- Leigh R. Smith was the assistant director.
- English Wikipedia says the film was long thought lost and that a print was found in 2016.
Scenes
- Norma is searched and the stolen money is on her.
- The grown daughter shoots Silvers with Jim's revolver.
- She reaches the jail as he is being taken to the rope.
Influenced by
- Max Marcin's story
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Silence (1926).webm)
