Secret Orders

{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Secret Orders | image = | caption = | director = Chester Withey | producer = | writer = {{ubl|J. Grubb Alexander|Martin Justice}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Harold Goodwin|Robert Frazer|Evelyn Brent}} | music = | cinematography = Roy H. Klaffki | editing = | studio = Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation | distributor = {{ubl|Film Booking Offices of America (US)|Butcher's Film Service (UK)}} | released = {{Film date|1926|3|7}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Secret Orders''''' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent.<ref>Kear & King p. 147</ref> The film was set in World War I and contained what the ''Chester Times'' described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wm. Penn Theatre|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/chester-times-aug-24-1926-p-7/|accessdate=April 26, 2018|work=Chester Times|date=August 24, 1926}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: ''Secret Orders'' |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=13 |pages=1420 |date=27 March 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionnews33moti/page/n395/mode/1up |access-date=11 April 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Janet Graham is cajoled into marrying Delano, who is a crook. During the War she obtains a position as a Secret Service agent under Bruce Corbin, in charge of scheduling transports. They fall in love. Delano is hired by the Germans and directed to obtain a list of transports sailing to Europe from Corbin's safe. He breaks in and forces Janet to accompany him. She warns a transport by radio to beware of a Hun submarine, which is then discovered and sunk. Corbin and guards rescue her and Delano is killed. Corbin and Janet wed.

==Cast== * Harold Goodwin as Eddie Delano * Robert Frazer as Bruce Corbin * Evelyn Brent as Janet Graaham * John Gough as Spike Slavin * Margerie Bonner as Mary, Janet's friend * Brandon Hurst as Butler * Frank Leigh as Cook

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Lynn Kear & James King. ''Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook''. McFarland, 2009.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0017361}} *[http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=6281177 Lantern slide] at emovieposter.com

Category:1926 films Category:1926 drama films Category:1926 lost films Category:1926 American films Category:1926 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:Films directed by Chester Withey Category:Lost American silent drama films