The Silent Lie is a 1917 silent drama film, produced and released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Walsh's then-wife Miriam Cooper.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988The Silent Lie at silentera.com
The film was reissued as Camille of the Yukon in 1920, and is now considered a lost film.
It had five reels.
Production The film was, according to contemporary sources, partially shot ’in the Truckee district’ in California.
Cast Miriam Cooper as Lady Lou Ralph Lewis as Hatfield Charles Clary as Conahan Monroe Salisbury as The Stranger Henry A. Barrows as The Priest Howard Davies as The Fur Dealer William Eagle Shirt as Indian
Censorship Initially, The Silent Lie was rejected in its entirety by the Kansas Board of Review, but upon review, it passed with several cuts. The scenes shortened were of a dance hall, gambling, and the scenes removed completely were of spitting, changing money, a struggle, and an intertitle saying "I paid you once."
See also List of lost films 1937 Fox vault fire
References
External links
The Silent Lie at SilentEra lobby poster (1920 reissue as Camille of the Yukon)