When False Tongues Speak

(1917)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1917

Runtime: 50 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Carl Harbaugh

Cast: Virginia Pearson, Carl Harbaugh, Hardee Kirkland, Claire Whitney, Carl Eckstrom, William E. Meehan

Plot

After Mary Page marries Fred Walton, she soon discovers that he is a womanizer. She tries to ignore Fred's affairs but, refuses to file for divorce even when Platt Sinclair, her husband's lawyer, urges her to do so. Mary does not realize that Sinclair is actually helping Fred, who is in love with his current mistress, Helen Lee, and wants to marry her. To escape her misery, Mary organizes a settlement house in the slums and there meets reporter Eric Mann, with whom she becomes very close.