A Voice in the Dark (film)

A Voice in the Dark is a 1921 American black-and-white silent mystery film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Ramsey Wallace, Irene Rich, and Alec B. Francis. The film is based on the play A Voice in the Dark by Ralph E. Dyar (New York, July 28, 1919).

Plot
Two sisters engaged on the same day: Adele, the younger, to Dr. Hugh Sainsbury, and Blanche, the eldest, to Harlan Day, an assistant district attorney. They are both suspected of committing a murder when Sainsbury is found dead. Blanche has a motive as Sainsbury almost dishonored her so that she wanted to prevent her sister from marrying him. Thanks to the testimony of two witnesses, a deaf woman and a blind man residing in the sanatorium where Sainsbury was working, the murder is resolved: the culprit is Amelia Ellingham, a nurse whom Sainsbury had seduced and to whom he had proposed to marry.

Cast

 * Ramsey Wallace as Harlan Day
 * Irene Rich as Blanche Walton
 * Alec B. Francis as Joseph Crampton (as Alec Francis)
 * Alan Hale as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
 * Ora Carew as Adele Walton
 * William Scott as Chester Thomas
 * Richard Tucker as Lieutenant Patrick Cloyd
 * Alice Hollister as Amelia Ellingham
 * Gertrude Norman as Mrs. Lydiard
 * James Neill as Edward Small

Preservation status

 * A print is preserved in the Library of Congress.