The Silent Voice
Cast & Crew
William J. Bowman
Francis X. Bushman
Marguerite Snow
Lester Cuneo
Ann Drew
Miss C. Henry
Film Details
Synopsis
Wealthy musician Franklyn Starr turns misanthropic after his mother, with whom he lives, dies, and he suddenly becomes deaf. With his devoted servant Spring, Starr moves to a mountain retreat, where wealthy Marjorie Blair rescues him from a landslide when he does not hear workmen's warnings that they are using dynamite. Their courtship and marriage restore Starr's serenity until he catches his cousin, Bobbie Delorme, embracing Marjorie and wrongly believes her unfaithful. Starr's bitterness returns and he vows to destroy all that is beautiful. While observing that a nearby park, which looks pleasant and clean to the naked eye, reveals derelicts, poverty and crime when inspected through field glasses, Starr reads the lips of a consumptive youth praying to God for money to go to another climate. Starr, blaspheming God, gives the youth money and cynically helps others, until he realizes that in doing good he is "an agent of God," and his happiness returns. He learns of Marjorie's innocence and they are reunited. Later, a specialist operates on Starr and restores his hearing.
Director
William J. Bowman
Cast
Francis X. Bushman
Marguerite Snow
Lester Cuneo
Ann Drew
Miss C. Henry
Frank Bacon
William Clifford
Helen Dunbar
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Notes
Otis Skinner starred in the Broadway production of the play. One source credited I. K. Freedman with the adaptation, while in an interview, Quality Pictures Corp. head Fred J. Balshofer claimed to have collaborated with Eve Unsell to write the scenario. At pre-release showings of the film in Chicago and New York, the length of the film was seven reels. This was Frank Bacon's first film. The actress Miss C. Henry May have been Catherine Henry.
