Secret Orders is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent.^[1] The film was set in World War I and contained what the Chester Times described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama.^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] Janet Graham is cajoled into marrying Delano, who is a crook. During the War she obtains a position as a Secret Service agent under Bruce Corbin, in charge of scheduling transports. They fall in love. Delano is hired by the Germans and directed to obtain a list of transports sailing to Europe from Corbin's safe. He breaks in and forces Janet to accompany him. She warns a transport by radio to beware of a Hun submarine, which is then discovered and sunk. Corbin and guards rescue her and Delano is killed. Corbin and Janet wed.

Cast

• Harold Goodwin as Eddie Delano
• Robert Frazer as Bruce Corbin
• Evelyn Brent as Janet Graaham
• John Gough as Spike Slavin
• Margerie Bonner as Mary, Janet's friend
• Brandon Hurst as Butler
• Frank Leigh as Cook