Idle Tongues (1924)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Percy Marmont

Dr. Ephraim Nye

Doris Kenyon

Katherine Minot

Claude Gillingwater

Judge Daniel Webster Copeland

Lucille Ricksen

Faith Copeland

David Torrence

Cyrenus Stone

Malcolm McGregor

Tom Stone

Vivia Ogden

Althea Bemis

Marguerite Clayton

Fanny Copeland

Ruby Lafayette

Miss Pepper

Dan Mason

Henry Ward Beecher Payson

Mark Hamilton

Bluey Batcheldor

Buck Black

Young boy

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