The Ladder of Lies is a lost[1] 1920 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and written by Edith Kennedy from a story by Harold Vickers.

[2] The film stars Ethel Clayton, Clyde Fillmore, Jean Acker, Irving Cummings, Charles Meredith, and Ruth Ashby.

[3][4] Edith Parrish is a magazine illustrator whose publisher friend, Peter Gordon, has married an "unworthy wife", Dora Leroy.

To keep her friend from being shattered by his wife's infidelity with Ralph Brent, Edith begins a series of lies to coverup the affair.

However, this leads to suspicion that she is having a romance with Brent, which causes her true love, John Blaine to doubt her.