Idle Tongues
1924, English. Directed by Lambert Hillyer.
Can your love withstand these babbling tongues?
After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.
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- 1h 0m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Lambert HillyerDirector
- Percy MarmontDr. Ephraim Nye
- Doris KenyonKatherine Minot
- Claude GillingwaterJudge Daniel Webster Copeland
- Lucille RicksenFaith Copeland
- David TorrenceCyrenus Stone
- Malcolm McGregorTom Stone
- Vivia OgdenAlthea Bemis
- Marguerite ClaytonFanny Copeland
- Ruby LafayetteMiss Pepper
- Dan MasonHenry Ward Beecher Payson
- Mark HamiltonBluey Batcheldor
- Buck BlackYoung boy
Details
- Released
- 21 December 1924
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Joseph C. Lincoln, C. Gardner Sullivan
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Idle Tongues runs 60 minutes (1h 0m).
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Idle Tongues isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 December 1924. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Idle Tongues?
Idle Tongues (1924) was directed by Lambert Hillyer and stars Percy Marmont, Doris Kenyon, Claude Gillingwater.