Details

Release year: 1924

Storyline

After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.

Top credits

Directors

Lambert Hillyer

Writers

Cast

Percy Marmont — Dr. Ephraim Nye
Doris Kenyon — Katherine Minot
Claude Gillingwater — Judge Daniel Webster Copeland
Lucille Ricksen — Faith Copeland

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Did you know

• The indoor scenes were filmed in the Ince studio in California, but the outdoor scenes were filmed along a small bit of beach just north of Santa Monica. The action scenes that Percy Marmont were in were done without any stunt doubles.

• With no copies of Idle Tongues located in any film archives, it is a lost film.