Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1926
The Silent Power
Buy The Silent Power now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'The Silent Power' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph Lewis, Ethel Shannon and Charles Delaney.Connelly p.255 It was produced by the independent company Gotham Pictures.
Synopsis
The manager of a hydro-electric plant manages to secure his reckless college graduate son a job working on the construction of a new dam. He falls in love with a woman, but when her crazed brother kills his boss he is arrested and convicted for murder. Sentenced to the electric chair it seems that it will be the unfortunate duty of his father to supply the electricity that will execute his son.
Cast
* Ralph Lewis as John Rollins
* Ethel Shannon as Olive Spencer
* Charles Delaney as Rob Rollins
* Vadim Uraneff as Jerry Spencer
* Robert Homans as David Webster
References
Bibliography
* Connelly, Robert B. 'The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2'. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.
Buy The Silent Power now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1926