The White Lie
Cast & Crew
Howard Hickman
Bessie Barriscale
Edward Coxen
Charles Gunn
Mary Jane Irving
James Farley
Film Details
Synopsis
Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. Visting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, however, he is shocked to find a portrait of his own wife and daughter, and suspecting the worst of Dorothy, he hires a private detective. Soon afterwards, Gordon asks Frank to design his new house, and Dorothy, fearing that he knows of her association with Frank, slips the latter a note arranging a private visit in his apartment. Frank, a reformed thief, refuses to stage a robbery with his old accomplices, and when they are arrested, one of the gang accuses Frank of informing the police and kills him. Arriving at his apartment, Dorothy assumes that Gordon killed him and is hiding the body when a detective enters. Unaware that Gordon is in the next room, Dorothy confesses that, unable to have children of her own, she had secretly adopted Frank's baby in Gordon's absence. Relieved, Gordon forgives his wife, while the real murderer is caught and arrested.
Director
Howard Hickman
Cast
Bessie Barriscale
Edward Coxen
Charles Gunn
Mary Jane Irving
James Farley
David Kirby
Aggie Herring
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Notes
The film was originally entitled A Wife's Conscience.
