Hush Money

📅 1921 ⏱️ 50 min 🎭 Drama

She Tossed Away Riches-Why? Which Comes First-Conscience or Wealth?

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Charles Maigne

✍️ Writers

Samuel Merwin

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Realart Pictures Corporation

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

Drama

📖 Overview

The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé, Bert Van Vliet, runs down and injures newsboy Terry McGuire. To avoid an embarrassing outcome, Bert persuades her to flee the scene of the accident. Evelyn is conscience-stricken and informs her father; he is then forced to pay “hush money” to a garage attendant who has witnessed the accident.