The Furies (lost Pre-Code murder mystery film; 1930)

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Shot from the film.
A poster from the film.

Lois Wilson is an actress who starred in films that are either lost, incomplete, or once-lost, now-found. One of these films was a 1930 film made during the Pre-Code era, a time between the introduction of sound with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, and the invention of the Hays Code Censorship Guidelines. This film is known as The Furies, which despite being lost, summaries and cast information have been provided by private film collectors who own copies, which began to deteriorate according to 2005 reports.

It was about Fifi Sands (Wilson), a woman who is married to a millionaire named Mr. Sands, who constantly cheats on her. However, because of these affairs, she falls in love with a man named Owen McDonald (Theodore von Eltz), and asks her husband for a divorce, and refuses everytime she asks. Then, Oliver Bedlow (H.B. Warner), who is Mr. Sands' lawyer, managed to prevent Fifi from divorcing her husband for a long period of time. Then, one night at a dinner party hosted by a man named Smith (Tyler Brooke), Fifi announces that Mr. Sands had finally allowed her to divorce him. McDonald, however, is disappointed that she didn't ask for a settlement, or an alimony.

Later on in the evening, Fifi's son, Alan Sands (Bryon Sage) discovers that his father is dead, and was poisoned. After the dinner party, Alan then accuses McDonald for the murder, calling him a "penniless fortune-hunter", and also chatises his own mother for apparently covering him. Then, family doctor Dr. Cummings (Alan Birmingham) is accused of the murder because of his strange interest in Fifi. Interestingly, Fifi herself is accused because she apparently looked distraught during the dinner party. Other known cast info includes Oliver's butler (Ben Hendricks Jr.), the District Attourney (Purnell Pratt), and Bennett (Carl Stockdale).

As well as the aforementioned deteriorating copies, two posters, a photograph, and possibly the soundtrack (which was recorded on Vitaphone discs) are known to have survived.