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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1186

The Whispering Chorus

191886 minUnited States

Synopsis

After stealing from his employer, John Tremble flees and uses a dead stranger's body to make his family believe he has been murdered. The attempt to erase himself creates a new danger when the police seek a killer. His wife's changed life makes revealing the truth increasingly costly.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 81:08
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Cecil B. DeMille · Public domain

Cast

Raymond Hatton

DirectorsCecil B. DeMille

Historical context

Cecil B. DeMille's drama gives temptation and conscience a central role in a story of assumed identity. Its cruel reversal turns an apparent escape from responsibility into an accusation of the hero's own murder.

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Raymond Hatton — Unknown author · Public domain

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