Secret Sorrow (1921)

A recent young widow Anne Morgan is thrust into terrible poverty. Unable to care for both of her children, she persuades a prominent black doctor to adopt one of the boys. The doctor raises the young boy well, and he grows into a successful lawyer. Unaware that they are brothers, the two meet again as men- one as a prisoner falsely accused of murder, the other as the district attorney at the trial. Almost too late, the truth of the crime and their family relationship is discovered, and the two men are united again as brothers. The Secret Sorrow is considered to be lost; however, in 2020, the two short clips were discovered.