Idle Tongues (1924)
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.
Director: Lambert Hillyer
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Percy Marmont as Dr. Ephraim Nye |
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Doris Kenyon as Katherine Minot |
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Claude Gillingwater as Judge Daniel Webster Copeland |
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Lucille Ricksen as Faith Copeland |
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David Torrence as Cyrenus Stone |
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Malcolm McGregor as Tom Stone |
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Vivia Ogden as Althea Bemis |
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Marguerite Clayton as Fanny Copeland |
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Ruby Lafayette as Miss Pepper |
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Dan Mason as Henry Ward Beecher Payson |
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Mark Hamilton as Bluey Batcheldor |
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Buck Black as Young boy |
| Directing | Lambert Hillyer | Director |
| Writing | Joseph C. Lincoln | Writer |
| Writing | C. Gardner Sullivan | Writer |
