Dark Secrets is a 1923 American silent feature drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Dorothy Dalton.

Ruth is thrown while riding the steed and receives an injury to the spine which cripples her.

Unable to walk, she breaks her engagement to Wallington, who returns to his regiment in Cairo, where he strives to forget Ruth in scenes of wild dissipation.

Biskra appears, having broken from the jail in which he was confined for killing Ali and seemingly tries to assassinate Wallington.

Ruth leaps from her chair to protect her lover and suddenly discovers that the spell is broken and that she can walk.