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The Silent Witness

Drama
February 13, 19120h 11m8.0 / 10
Overview

The president of a state bank, guilty of malfeasance bribes the District Attorney to suppress the case. The DA’s secretary takes a photograph of the moment when a considerable sum of money changes hands extorting his employer. The dissolute secretary makes advances on a friend’s wife and as the husband rushes the roue a lamp is upset, plunging the place into darkness. A flash and a shot and the young blackmailer falls to the floor dead. The wife thinks the husband fired in anger, the husband believes the wife shot to protect herself. The District Attorney, the guilty man, is called upon to prosecute and accuses them both. An unexpected witness appears at the last moment and the pair are set free.

Production
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Cast
William Russell
William RussellThe Young Husband
Florence La Badie
Florence La BadieThe Young Wife
Joseph Graybill
Joseph GraybillThe Blackmailer
Violet Heming
Violet Heming
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Edwin ThanhouserMember of the Jury
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