Shadows (1919 Goldwyn film)

Shadows is a 1919 American silent film drama produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Reginald Barker. It stars opera singer Geraldine Farrar.

As described in a film magazine, Muriel Barnes Farrar is the loving and happy wife of conservative New Yorker Judson Barnes Sills and the devoted mother of a child Smith, when a promoter of a fake mining enterprise, Frank Craftley Truesdell, gains social access to her home. Craftley has never met her before, but his side partner Jack McGoff Santschi has a photograph of Muriel from her previous life in Alaska under the name Cora Lamont. McGoff had deceived her by marrying her although he already had a living wife. He then forced her into the job as a dance hall girl. She escaped by shooting him in selfdefense and then fleeing Alaska. Without knowing these details but guessing some general circumstances, Craftley works on her fears until she induces her husband to go out West to inspect the salted claim. McGoff stays behind and visits Muriels home at night, and she permits him to enter her boudoir. Knowing that a policeman is courting one of the servants on the floor below, she scatters some jewels to give the appearance of a robbery, and, when McGoff attempts to embrace her, screams for help. Fleeing arrest, McGoff shoots at the policeman, and is later killed in the resulting scrimmage. His death ends the shadows in Muriels life.

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