Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her promise. Avis follows her brother to New Zealand in hopes of protecting him from his own ways, but on the trip tragedy apparently strikes.
Production
One of William Desmond Taylor's final films before his unsolved murder.
Acting
Ethel Clayton's suffering face — silent cinema's greatest asset.
Director
William Desmond Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Most of this film is lost; only fragments survive in archives, making the 'tragedy apparently strikes' cliffhanger literally unresolvable for modern viewers.
Director William Desmond Taylor's 1922 unsolved murder — involving starlets, forged identities, and Hollywood's first major scandal — makes every surviving frame feel like evidence.
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