Held by the Law (1927)

Directors

Edward Laemmle

The story

As described in a film magazine, tragedy replaces gaiety at the engagement party of Mary Travis and Tom Sinclair when his cousin, Boris Morton, a gentleman black sheep, facing exposure for the theft of a necklace from a member of the guests, shoots Sinclair's father in the back while the two fathers are drinking a toast in the library. Morton, with the cunning of desperation, casts the gun from his gloved hand into the room and joins the horrified guests as one of them. Tom Sinclair, stunned by the tragedy, unconsciously casts suspicion on Mary's father.

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