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The Silent Witness (1912)

ALL 02/13/1912 (en) Drama 11 Min
  • Release
    02/13/1912
  • Production
    Thanhouser Film Corporation
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  • Original title
    The Silent Witness
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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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.

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  1. William Russell

    The Young Husband

  2. Florence La Badie

    The Young Wife

  3. Joseph Graybill

    The Blackmailer

  4. Violet Heming

  5. Edwin Thanhouser

    Member of the Jury

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The Silent Witness (1912) 11 Min

ALL 02/13/1912 (en)
Drama
  • Release 02/13/1912
  • Production
    Thanhouser Film Corporation
  • Original title The Silent Witness
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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