The Silver Slave

70 minutesCountryUSLanguagesSound (Synchronized)
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The Silver Slave is a lost^[1][2] 1927 synchronized sound film drama directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Irene Rich. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers.^[3] however there is no spoken dialogue.

Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a lifelong friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.

• Irene Rich as Bernice Randall
• Audrey Ferris as Janet Randall
• Holmes Herbert as Tom Richards
• John Miljan as Philip Caldwell
• Carroll Nye as Larry Martin

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• The Silver Slave at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie