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Goldwyn Released: January 14, 1923
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Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Screenplay by
From the novel by
Cast
Cameraman
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Richard Dix as John Storm leaving his wealthy family to become a priest!
John Storm and Glory Quayle. sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London. Glory to become a nurse and John a priest of the Church of England. |
Polly Love, who peruaded Glory to go, is betrayed by Lord Robert, and dismissed from the hospital... |
...while Horatio Drake discovers Glory's talent for acting and she becomes a star. |
John, torn betwen his love for Glory and his ideals, enters a monastery... |
... but love wins and he renounces his vows and founds a mission for the homeless and fallen. |
He remonstrates with Glory, telling her her soul is in danger, but she still goes on with her career. |
Lord Robert buys the mission and prepares to drive out Storm, after the Derby. |
London is worked up to a high pitch of excitement by the prophecy. |
He goes to the Derby and speaks to the crowd there, denying the stories without avail. |
In a religious frenzy, Storm goes to Glory's rooms with the intention of killing her in order to save her soul. |
She diverts him by showing that she loves him and he wanders out into the street, is pursued by the mob, and beaten and stoned. |
Glory takes him to the mission and he dies after they have been wedded. |
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