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Going Straight

191660 minUnited States
DramaCrime
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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
58:29
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Synopsis

A prosperous married couple has successfully hidden its past as the leaders of a criminal gang. An old associate discovers them and threatens exposure unless the husband returns to safe-breaking. The supposedly final job takes him into a friend's house where his own wife and children are staying, turning blackmail into an immediate danger to the family.

Cast

DirectorsChester M. FranklinSidney Franklin

Historical context

Norma Talmadge's role places a mother's established domestic life against the persistence of a criminal past. The film survives as one of the comparatively limited number of extant works from her long silent-screen career.

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Wikipedia — film referenceDuke Center for the Study of the Public Domain — US term reference

Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.

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