The Mansion of Aching Hearts is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Ethel Clayton, Barbara Bedford, and Priscilla Bonner.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine review,[3] believing his wife is unfaithful, Martin Craig sends his with Pauline and their child away.

The mother loses the child while on a boat, after which the father locates it and rears it as a stranger without a last name, to be called Bill Smith.

The mother, believing the child has drowned, goes to a home for friendless pregnant young women and becomes its matron.

Later, she returns to the home of her son only to find that he has been taught to promise vengeance upon her for bringing him into the world nameless.