Secret Orders is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent.Kear & King p. 147 The film was set in World War I and contained what the Chester Times described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama.
Plot As described in a film magazine review, 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
Bibliography Lynn Kear & James King. Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook. McFarland, 2009.
External links
Lantern slide at emovieposter.com