The Scarlet Woman (1916)

ALL 05/29/1916 (en) Drama, Crime 60 Min
  • Release
    05/29/1916
  • Production
    Popular Plays and Players Inc.
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    The Scarlet Woman
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Six acts of exquisite photoplay presenting a vital drama of New York society and the "Great White Way."

Overview

Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes to D.A. Hastings to plead for a light sentence which the corrupt Hastings agrees to only if Thora gives herself to him. Upon his release the worthless Davis learning of her sacrifice divorces and turns her into the street. An outcast she becomes "the scarlet woman.” When wealthy crusader Robert Blake institutes an investigation exposing D.A. Hastings he is disbarred and decides to revenge himself upon Thora, considering her the cause of his downfall. Blackmailing unscrupulous society woman, Paula Gordon, he forces her to introduce Thora to Blake as a naïve woman while deceiving Thora that he knows about her past. After they marry Hastings denounces Thora, she flees, returning to her old life, but Blake, seeing her worth seeks her and they reunite.

  1. Story

  2. Editor



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  1. Olga Petrova

    Thora Davis

  2. Edward Martindel

    Hanlin Davis

  3. Arthur Hoops

    Clinton Hastings

  4. Eugene O'Brien

    Robert Blake

  5. Franklyn Hanna

  6. Frances Gordon

    Paula Gordon

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 5

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The Scarlet Woman (1916) 60 Min

ALL 05/29/1916 (en)
Drama, Crime
  • Release 05/29/1916
  • Production
    Popular Plays and Players Inc.
  • Original title The Scarlet Woman
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Six acts of exquisite photoplay presenting a vital drama of New York society and the "Great White Way."

Overview

Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes to D.A. Hastings to plead for a light sentence which the corrupt Hastings agrees to only if Thora gives herself to him. Upon his release the worthless Davis learning of her sacrifice divorces and turns her into the street. An outcast she becomes "the scarlet woman.” When wealthy crusader Robert Blake institutes an investigation exposing D.A. Hastings he is disbarred and decides to revenge himself upon Thora, considering her the cause of his downfall. Blackmailing unscrupulous society woman, Paula Gordon, he forces her to introduce Thora to Blake as a naïve woman while deceiving Thora that he knows about her past. After they marry Hastings denounces Thora, she flees, returning to her old life, but Blake, seeing her worth seeks her and they reunite.

  1. Edmund Lawrence, Alice Guy-Blaché

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Alice Guy-Blaché

    Producer