The Hidden Truth

The Hidden Truth

Plot summaryAdd synopsis Taglines Out on the trackless desert was her husband- dead or alive? She knew not which. Her lover was accused of his murder.

NR 1919 · 50 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.

Directed by Julius Steger · Written by S.M. Weller

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Cast

Anna Case Helen Merrill
Charles Richman Charles Taylor
Emma Campbell Mrs. Collins
Forrest Robinson Judge Blake
Grace Reals Mrs. Blake
Thomas J. McGrane Bill Sheridan
John Charles George Reed
Frank Wunderlee Jake Codby
Fred Hearn 'Snipe' Roach
Madelyn Clare Myrtl Cadby
William Black The Sheriff
Davy Don The Lumberman

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