The Language of the Dumb (1915)
Bob Owen, superintendent of a bread plant, is in love with heiress Helen Page, who returns his passion. Helen's favorite philanthropy is a school for deaf/mute children, and in the course of her active work at the school she becomes proficient in lip-reading. Holt, a rascal of good social position who is on friendly terms with Helen, finds himself on the verge and ruin and determines to win more than friendship from Helen. Finding Bob in his path, he determines to remove him and plots with one of Bob's men to pin on Bob a crime that will send him to the penitentiary, utterly disgraced. It happens that a motion picture about the bread industry is being made, and Holt's tool Breen chances to stand in the foreground of a scene being shot when he confides Holt's plot to a needed confederate. The decided-on scheme works perfectly, and Bob is brought to trial on attempted murder and robbery charges, with evidence of guilt, though false, apparently conclusive. Heartbroken, Helen seeks diversion by activity at the school, where she has arranged for the showing of motion pictures to the children. When the bread-industry picture is shown, Helen reads the words formed by Breen's lips on the screen, and hastily communicates with Bob's attorney. The trial is just about concluded, and Bob's conviction is sure, when the attorney asks to be allowed to introduce a motion picture into evidence. The consequential portion of the industrial picture is shown in the courtroom, and one of the mute children from the school writes on the chalkboard the words formed by Breen's lips. Bob is promptly acquitted, and Holt and his tools are taken into custody.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Joseph W. Smiley | Director |
| Emmett C. Hall | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William W. Cohill | |
| Justina Huff | |
| John Smiley | |
| James Cassady |
