Idle Tongues
movie

Can your love withstand these babbling tongues?
Released December 21, 1924
Genres:
Overview
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.
Cast

Percy Marmont
as
Dr. Ephraim Nye

Doris Kenyon
as
Katherine Minot

Claude Gillingwater
as
Judge Daniel Webster Copeland

Lucille Ricksen
as
Faith Copeland

David Torrence
as
Cyrenus Stone

Malcolm McGregor
as
Tom Stone

Vivia Ogden
as
Althea Bemis

Marguerite Clayton
as
Fanny Copeland

Ruby Lafayette
as
Miss Pepper

Dan Mason
as
Henry Ward Beecher Payson

Mark Hamilton
as
Bluey Batcheldor

Buck Black
as
Young boy
