Her Discretion was based on a novel by Hamilton Thompson. May Allison stars as the wife of U.S. Coast Guard captain Mahlon Hamilton. While hubby is away at sea, Allison enjoys a brief affair with a local cad. She hopes to keep this a secret from Hamilton, but her erstwhile beau is of the blackmailing variety. Sorely tempted to put a bullet through the villain's head, Allison is saved from further sullying of her reputation when the blackmailer is conveniently killed in a fall from a cliff. Having learned her lesson, Allison spends the last few scenes begging her freshly-returned husband for forgiveness. Critics carped that both May Allison and Mahlon Hamilton were getting too old for this sort of thing (except, possibly, the critic for Photoplay, whose publisher was the husband of Allison). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi