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'''''The Broken Silence''''' is a feature-length 1922 American film.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7tPAAAAYAAJ&q=the+broken+silence+1922+zena|title=The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36|first=Robert B.|last=Connelly|date=January 17, 1998|publisher=December Press|isbn=9780913204368|via=Google Books}}</ref> An adaptation of a short story by James Oliver Curwood,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&dq=Broken+Silence+1922+film+curwood&pg=PA101 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |date=2011-09-08 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |language=en}}</ref> it was directed by Dell Henderson<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f96ad52|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927053152/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f96ad52|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 27, 2021|title=The Broken Silence (1922)|website=BFI}}</ref> for Pine Tree Pictures productions, and distributed by Arrow Film Corp.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&dq=the+broken+silence+1922+zena&pg=PA101|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|first=Alan|last=Goble|date=September 8, 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110951943|via=Google Books}}</ref> ''The Broken Silence'' is a melodrama love story involving a murder and devoted siblings, set in Canada's Northwest.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&dq=the+broken+silence+1922+zena&pg=PA93|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|first1=Kenneth White|last1=Munden|first2=American Film|last2=Institute|date=January 17, 1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209695|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnpZAAAAMAAJ&q=Broken+Silence+1922+film |title=American Film Cycles: The Silent Era |date=1998-03-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-30657-0 |language=en}}</ref> Thomas F. Fallon adapted the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/3087-THE-BROKEN-SILENCE?cxt=filmography |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>
==Premise== A brother and sister posing as husband and wife to gel in as a normal couple in the Canadian Northwest are suspects in the murder of an inspector, who had killed their parents. Thinking that his sister has killed the inspector, the brother confesses to the crime to protect her, but she isn't the real culprit.
==Cast== * Zena Keefe as Jeanne Marat * Robert Elliott as Bruce Cameron * J. Barney Sherry as Inspector Brandt * Jack Hopkins as Pierre Marat * Jack Drumier as Indian Joe
== Reception == ''TV Guide'' noted that "With the possible exception of Zena Keefe, a former ingenue with the pioneering Vitagraph company, and veteran character actor J. Barney Sherry, ''The Broken Silence'' featured a cast of complete unknowns."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Broken Silence |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/broken-silence/cast/2030329389/#google_vignette |access-date=2024-10-20 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0012982|The Broken Silence}}
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