A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Lying Truth
(1922) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 5338 feet
Directed by Marion Fairfax [?] + [Hugh McClung]

Cast: Noah Beery [Lawrence De Muidde], Marjorie Daw [Sue De Muidde], Tully Marshall [Horace Todd], Pat O‘Malley [Bill O’Hara], Charles Mailes (Charles Hill Mailes) [Sam Clairborne Sr.], Claire McDowell [Mrs. Sam Clairborne], Adele Watson [Ellie Clairborne], George Dromgold [Sam Clairborne Jr.], Robert Brauer [Mose], Wade Boteler [Bill O’Hara Sr.], Pete Smith [a reporter]

Marion Fairfax Productions production; distributed by American Releasing Corporation. / Scenario by Marion Fairfax, from a screen story by Marion Fairfax. Technical direction by Charles D. Hall. Assistant director, Thomas Held. Cinematography by René Guissart. Presented by Eagle Producing Company. / © 22 March 1922 by Eagle Producing Company [LP17915]. Released 22 March 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 July 2023.

References: Website-AFI.