The Whispering Chorus (1918)

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.

Condenado antiguamente por malversación de fondos, John Brent es ahora el director de una compañía de transporte marítimo. Pero el destino parece cebarse en su contra. Su esposa Nicole amenaza con dejarlo, el ex dentista de la prisión, Ralph Beldon, lo chantajea y amenaza con hacerle perder su puesto. De vuelta a casa, Beldon es sorprendido por un hombre enmascarado que lo obliga a participar en el robo de la caja fuerte de la compañía naviera... John deberá aclarar las cosas por sí mismo, si no quiere volver a la cárcel.

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.

Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama