Out of the Shadow
Cast & Crew
Emile Chautard
Pauline Frederick
Wyndham Standing
Ronald Byram
William Gross
Emma Campbell
Film Details
Synopsis
After Ruth Minchin is acquitted of murdering her husband for lack of evidence, Richard Steel, a philanthropist, befriends her and sends her to his aunt's quiet country home. Reporter Edward Langholm follows, determined to get a scoop. At a lawn party, after a jealous woman reveals Ruth's identity, Richard confesses his love for her, but she grows suspicious when she finds a photograph of her husband in the house, and Langholm says that he saw Richard pay a tramp to keep quiet. Langholm overhears Ruth interrogate the tramp, who says that when Minchin tried to blackmail Richard by threatening to reveal that Richard once murdered a man in Australia, Richard killed Minchin. After Langholm has Richard arrested, Ruth remembers that Minchin once beat her when she helped Paolo Severino, a poor pianist. Detectives question Severino and he confesses that while delirious, he killed Minchin. Richard is freed, and after he explains that he killed the man in Australia in self-defense, he and Ruth plan to marry.
Director
Emile Chautard
Cast
Pauline Frederick
Wyndham Standing
Ronald Byram
William Gross
Emma Campbell
Nancy Hathaway
Agnes Wakefield
Jack W. Johnson
Syn De Conde
Henry Heaton
William T. Hayes
Catherine Thomas
W. Harcourt
Harry Kosher
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Notes
The working title for this film was The Shadow of a Rope. The actor listed as "Harry Kosher" in all the trade reviews and in the synopsis in the copyright descriptions is possibly Henry Koser. According to a pre-release news item, the cells and cell corridor of the Tombs prison in New York were recreated for this production, which also boasted unusual rain effects.
