The Liar
Cast & Crew
Edmund Lawrence
Virginia Pearson
Alexander Frank
Edward F. Roseman
Victor Sutherland
Eugene Borden
Film Details
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Synopsis
Sam Harris, a black worker on the sugar plantation of Hugh Houston in Puerto Rico, is crippled for life when Houston beats him. Huston silences Harris with money and promises him a monthly allotment for the rest of his life. Houston's secretary, Franklin Harvey, is puzzled by Harris' regular appearances at Houston's office. When Houston's daughter Sybil, who lives in Boston, visits her father, she so enchants Harvey that he becomes fiercely determined to marry her. Sybil repulses Franklin's attentions, and after her father dies, Franklin tries to prevent her marriage to the man she loves, John Carter, by falsifying Houston's marriage certificate, substituting the name of Harris' mother for that of Sybil's own. When he threatens to reveal to John that Sybil is part black, she orders him to leave but is later haunted by the fear that her child will be born black. Franklin angrily tells his story to John, and while the two men fight, Sybil rushes into the next room and apparently shoots herself. Remorseful at the thought that Sybil killed herself because of him, Franklin confesses his lie, but Sybil appears at the door unharmed and says she knew he was lying.
Director
Edmund Lawrence
Cast
Virginia Pearson
Alexander Frank
Edward F. Roseman
Victor Sutherland
Eugene Borden
Albert Roccardi
Liane Held Carrera
Myra Brooke
Matilda Brundage
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
The copyright entry attributes the scenario to Adeline Leitzbach. The story by Katherine Kavanaugh included in the copyright descriptions was originally entitled "The Alien Strain." On the cover sheet of the story, George Scarborough's name as story writer seems to be partially scratched out or erased.
