Living Lies


1922

Film Details

Release Date
May 1, 1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Mayflower Photoplay Corp.
Distribution Company
Clark-Cornelius Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "A Scrap of Paper" by Arthur Somers Roche in Saturday Evening Post and his novel Plunder (Indianapolis, 1917).

Synopsis

"Dixon Grant, a reporter, is instructed to run down a band of high financiers suspected by the editor of being involved in a number of illegitimate deals. Masterman, the head of the crooked syndicate, effects an alliance with two others in putting over a traction deal. The signed agreement is blown out of the window and ... falls into the hands of Grant. This fact is soon discovered by Masterman who offers to bribe the reporter and his sweetheart into surrendering the papers. They are tricked by Bray ... and tortured until Grant discloses the hiding place of the papers. Masterman sets out to locate the papers. Meanwhile, Grant and his sweetheart escape and manage to secure the necessary evidence to publish the traction scandal. Masterman ... has sought refuge in his house boat, [which] is caught in the stong current and its destruction follows." ( Moving Picture World, 21 Jan 1922, p322.)

Film Details

Release Date
May 1, 1922
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Mayflower Photoplay Corp.
Distribution Company
Clark-Cornelius Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "A Scrap of Paper" by Arthur Somers Roche in Saturday Evening Post and his novel Plunder (Indianapolis, 1917).

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