The Price of Silence is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse and starring Lon Chaney.

[1] The screenplay was written by Ida May Park, based on the short story by W. Carey Wonderly.

Dr. Stafford (Lon Chaney) is summoned, and Helen happens to mention to the doctor that she and Ralph were not married (not realizing she is now pregnant).

Helen returns home and plans to marry a young millionaire named Oliver Urmy, but she soon discovers she is pregnant.

Helen fears that Billy Cupps is her own son (Ralph Kelton's offspring), which would make him Arline's half-brother!

"The Price of Silence, while it is a well-made production, is unfortunately based on an unpleasant theme, presenting situations that are tense and undeniably dramatic, but at the same time vesting certain characters with unheroic temperments, where actions reflecting moral heroism would be more liable to excite sympathy...Considerable is made in the production of bedroom and undress scenes; more in fact than would give the production a place among films for young people."