Idle Tongues (1924)

Idle Tongues

1924

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Lambert Hillyer

Cast

Claude Gillingwater as Judge Daniel Webster Copeland

Dan Mason as Henry Ward Beecher Payson

David Torrence as Cyrenus Stone

Doris Kenyon as Katherine Minot

Lucille Ricksen as Faith Copeland

Malcolm McGregor as Tom Stone

Marguerite Clayton as Fanny Copeland

Percy Marmont as Dr. Ephraim Nye