The Eyes of the Totem (1927)

Plot Summary

After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.

Full Cast & Characters

Wanda Hawley

Mariam Hardy

Tom Santschi

Philip La Rue

Anne Cornwall

Betty Hardy

Gareth Hughes

Bruce Huston

Bert Woodruff

Toby

Violet Palmer

Stella Haynes

Monte Wax

Jim Hardy

Mary Louise Jones

Mrs. Francis Huston

Dorothy Llewellyn

Peggy Huston

Nell Barry Taylor

Bessie Snyder

Peggy Ann Sessoms

Baby Sessoms

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