The Silent Code

The Silent Code

60 mins | Western | Nov. 20, 1935

Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post. An accountant of the company Berkley works for threatens to expose him when his account is found $10,000 short. Barkley pleads for more time to raise the money. His opportunity arises when he learns that Helen's father and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brent, has struck it rich and is on his way to visit Helen. Barkley instructs his henchmen Carney and Breen to lie in wait and rob Brent of his gold. Brent has a premonition of trouble and buries his gold, making a map of the location. Barkley is disturbed by the arrival of Corporal Hale and goes to warn his men, and finds them already engaged in the attack on Brent. Brent's dog Wolfgang (played by a dog named Rex, or maybe the other way around)...

The Silent Code

60 mins | Western | Nov. 20, 1935

The Silent Code
Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post. An accountant of the company Berkley works for threatens to expose him when his account is found $10,000 short. Barkley pleads for more time to raise the money. His opportunity arises when he learns that Helen's father and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brent, has struck it rich and is on his way to visit Helen. Barkley instructs his henchmen Carney and Breen to lie in wait and rob Brent of his gold. Brent has a premonition of trouble and buries his gold, making a map of the location. Barkley is disturbed by the arrival of Corporal Hale and goes to warn his men, and finds them already engaged in the attack on Brent. Brent's dog Wolfgang (played by a dog named Rex, or maybe the other way around)...
Producers Weiss Productions, Argosy Productions Corporation
Original title The Silent Code
Directors Stuart Paton
Writers George Morgan

Cast

Kane Richmond

as NWMP Cpl. Jerry Hale

Blanche Mehaffey

as Helen Brent

Wolfang

as Rex, King of Dogs

J.P. McGowan

as Commissioner

Joseph W. Girard

as NWMP Inspector Manning

Barney Furey

as Peter Barkley

Pat Harmon

as Henchman Carney

Ben Corbett

as Henchman Breen

Carl Mathews

as Henchman Lobo

Edward Coxen

as Nathan Brent

Bud Osborne

as Mountie Sergeant

Clarence Davis

as Redwing

Ted Mapes

as First Mountie Constable

Douglas Ross

as Second Mountie Constable

Rose Higgins

as Indian Servant