The Eyes of the Totem (1927)
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
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Wanda Hawley as Mariam Hardy |
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Tom Santschi as Philip La Rue |
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Anne Cornwall as Betty Hardy |
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Gareth Hughes as Bruce Huston |
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Bert Woodruff as Toby |
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Violet Palmer as Stella Haynes |
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Monte Wax as Jim Hardy |
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Mary Louise Jones as Mrs. Francis Huston |
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Dorothy Llewellyn as Peggy Huston |
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Nell Barry Taylor as Bessie Snyder |
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Peggy Ann Sessoms as Baby Sessoms |
| Writing | Everett C. Maxwell | Adaptation |
| Writing | W.W. Dickson | Story |
| Directing | W.S. Van Dyke | Director |