The Hidden Truth (1919)
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.
Director:
Julius Steger
Writer:
S.M. Weller
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Anna Case as Helen Merrill |
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Charles Richman as Charles Taylor |
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Emma Campbell as Mrs. Collins |
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Forrest Robinson as Judge Blake |
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Grace Reals as Mrs. Blake |
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Thomas J. McGrane as Bill Sheridan |
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John Charles as George Reed |
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Frank Wunderlee as Jake Codby |
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Fred Hearn as 'Snipe' Roach |
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Madelyn Clare as Myrtl Cadby |
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William Black as The Sheriff |
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Davy Don as The Lumberman |
| Directing | Julius Steger | Director |
| Writing | S.M. Weller | Screenplay |
| Writing | S.M. Weller | Story |
