''A Silent Witness'' is a 1912 Australian

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by

Franklyn Barrett Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873 – 16 July 1964), better known as Franklyn Barrett, was an Australian film director and cinematographer. He worked for a number of years for West's Pictures. It was later written of the filmmaker that "Barrett's visu ...

. It is considered a

lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...

. It was a drama set in Sydney with Cyril Mackay as the hero. Barrett later claimed this detective drama was the first production in which he had a "free hand".Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p35

Cast

*Cyril Mackay *Irby Marshall *Charles Lawrence *Sydney Stirling *Leonard Willey *George Bryant *Loris Brown

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* 1912 films Australian drama short films Australian silent short films Australian black-and-white films 1912 drama films Lost Australian films 1912 lost films Lost drama films Films directed by Franklyn Barrett Silent Australian drama films {{1910s-short-drama-film-stub