Secret Orders Explained

Secret Orders
Director:Chester Withey
Cinematography:Roy H. Klaffki
Studio:Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Runtime:60 minutes
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

Secret Orders is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent.[1] The film was set in World War I and contained what the Chester Times described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama.[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Janet Graham is cajoled into marrying Delano, who is a crook. During the War she obtains a position as a Secret Service agent under Bruce Corbin, in charge of scheduling transports. They fall in love. Delano is hired by the Germans and directed to obtain a list of transports sailing to Europe from Corbin's safe. He breaks in and forces Janet to accompany him. She warns a transport by radio to beware of a Hun submarine, which is then discovered and sunk. Corbin and guards rescue her and Delano is killed. Corbin and Janet wed.

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Notes and References

  1. Kear & King p. 147
  2. News: Wm. Penn Theatre. April 26, 2018. Chester Times. August 24, 1926.