The Eyes of the Totem

Release Date: 1927-05-15

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Wanda Hawley

as Mariam Hardy

Tom Santschi

as Philip La Rue

Anne Cornwall

as Betty Hardy

Gareth Hughes

as Bruce Huston

Bert Woodruff

as Toby