Dark Secrets

{{short description|1923 film by Victor Fleming}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Dark Secrets | image = Darksecrets-1923-poster.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Victor Fleming | producer = Adolph Zukor | writer = Edmund Goulding | starring = Dorothy Dalton | music = | cinematography = Harold Rosson | editing = | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1923|1|21}} | runtime = 5 reels (4,337 feet) | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

'''''Dark Secrets''''' is a 1923 American silent feature drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Dorothy Dalton.<ref name="SilentEra">[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DarkSecrets1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Dark Secrets''] at silentera.com</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dark Secrets|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3625|website=American Film Institute|publisher=afi.com|access-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2293&dat=19230325&id=duZfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OAMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1947,6766615&hl=en "DOROTHY DALTON AT QUEEN THEATRE / To Appear First Three Days This Week in "Dark Secrets"" {included is a photo of Dorothy Dalton} (''The Delmarvia Star'', March 25, 1923, p.15)]</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19230713&id=LCsmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Uf4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1754,2871056&hl=en "SATURDAY — DOROTHY DALTON and ROBERT ELLIS in DARK SECRETS / A thrilling adventure in Love" {includes a photo of Dorothy Dalton} (''The Afro American'', July 13, 1923, p.5)]</ref> It is not known whether the film currently survives,<ref name="SilentEra"/> which suggests that it is a lost film.

==Synopsis== {{blockquote|Ruth Rutherford is engaged to Lord Wallington, a British army officer. He presents her with a magnificent horse named "Untameable." Ruth is thrown while riding the steed and receives an injury to the spine which cripples her. Unable to walk, she breaks her engagement to Wallington, who returns to his regiment in Cairo, where he strives to forget Ruth in scenes of wild dissipation. Later Ruth also goes to Cairo, where she is attended by a faithful servant named Biskra. She attracts the attention of a famous surgeon known as Dr. Ali. The latter promised to cure her on condition that she becomes his wife. Ruth unwillingly consents. Dr. Ali cures her. He attempts to attack Ruth and is slain by Biskra. Ruth, controlled by the dead man's power again becomes a cripple. Biskra appears, having broken from the jail in which he was confined for killing Ali and seemingly tries to assassinate Wallington. Ruth leaps from her chair to protect her lover and suddenly discovers that the spell is broken and that she can walk. The lovers are united.|''Exhibitors Trade Review'' (February 1923)}}

==Cast== * Dorothy Dalton as Ruth Rutherford * Robert Ellis as Lord Wallington * José Ruben as Dr. Mohammed Ali * Ellen Cassidy as Mildred Rice * Pat Hartigan as Biskra * Warren Cook as Dr. Case * Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Rutherford

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==External links== {{Commons category|Dark Secrets}} *{{IMDb title|0013051}} *{{AFI film|id=3625|title=Dark Secrets}} *{{TCMDb title|id=492877|title=Dark Secrets}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20131103233635/http://www.geh.org/ar/strip64/htmlsrc2/m198701190013_ful.html#topofimage Lantern slide promotion in color]

Category:1923 films Category:Films directed by Victor Fleming Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:1923 drama films Category:American silent drama films Category:1923 American films Category:1923 English-language films Category:English-language drama films