(The Hidden Truth)

Content: Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

50 minutes

Year:

1919

Directors:

Julius Steger

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Production companies:

International Film Service

Actors:

Helen Merrill

Charles Taylor

Mrs. Collins

Judge Blake

Mrs. Blake

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