Shackles of Truth (1917)
• June 4th, 1917 • 0h 50min
Drama
Overview
Law partners, Gerard Hale and Luther Snaith, vie for a vacant Senate seat as well as the governor's daughter Marion. When Tom Shores and his sister Mary appear at the firm with the news that her two-year-old is the illegitimate child of Gerard's late father, Gerard Hale, Sr., Snaith sees the opportunity to win both the Senate seat and Marion. Gerard, feeling an obligation, gives Mary a check for $50,000. Luther has Mary and Tom seized by detectives to force an open admission from Gerard of culpability. Meanwhile, Mrs. Hale and Marion have stopped in to visit and Gerard, fearing the truth will prove fatal to his mother's ailing heart, claims that the baby is his. Mrs. Hale is confined to bed and Snaith blackmails Gerard to withdraw from the race. Mrs. Hale asks Gerard to do his duty and wed Mary. Mary wants to be truthful, but Gerard fears that may prove fatal to his mother. However, when Mrs. Hale dies, Gerard is freed from the shackles of truth.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Fanatics
Released on: 1917-12-09
Drama
Failing to get a loan from Nicholas Eyre, the Steel King and friend of his wife's father, Robert Lat...
The Sea Wolf
Released on: 1926-07-26
Adventure, Drama
Captain "Wolf" Larsen, the absolute master of a seal schooner, is a mystic and philosopher, though h...
The Prosecutor
Released on: 1917-02-20
Drama
Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speakin...
Blind Man's Luck
Released on: 1917-06-10
Crime, Drama
Suspected of smuggling, Eileen Caverly boards the Connecticut Limited where she befriends Helen Raym...
Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Released on: 1922-11-01
Drama, Horror, Adventure
In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
The Forward Pass
Released on: 1929-11-10
Drama, Romance
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for...
The Keys to Happiness
Released on: 1913-01-02
Drama
Directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov, this two-part epic was the most expensive Russian ...
Rose-Marie
Released on: 1928-02-11
Drama
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but s...
The One Woman
Released on: 1918-10-01
Crime, Drama
Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by ...
The Summer Girl
Released on: 1916-08-14
Comedy, Drama
Heiress Mary Anderson feigns poverty during her romance with struggling artist Bruce Haldeman, howev...
His Supreme Moment
Released on: 1925-04-12
Drama
John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Ca...
Icebound
Released on: 1924-03-02
Drama, Romance
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. H...
I Accuse
Released on: 1916-02-21
Drama
A story of malice, deception, blackmail and pride set in small town America.
The Crystal Gazer
Released on: 1917-07-30
Drama
Rose Jorgenson, a poor tenement dweller who lives with her daughters Rose and Norma in a slum and wh...
The Kreutzer Sonata
Released on: 1911-01-02
Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata is a 1911 Russian silent film directed by Pyotr Chardynin. The film is considere...
The Wooing of Princess Pat
Released on: 1918-02-18
Drama
To stave off war with a neighboring kingdom, Princess Pat of Paxitania agrees to marry Warburg's Kin...
Petersburg Slums
Released on: 1915-01-02
Drama, Adventure
Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.
Forger's Doom
Released on: 1912-03-15
Crime, Drama
Claire, the wife of a bank teller, has a liason with a mysterious stranger while her husband is away...