Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by Kate Ransom, the woman Gordon has fallen in with love and entered into a common-law agreement with after divorcing his wife. With the outbreak of World War I, however, the members of his new congregation oppose conscription while he wholeheartedly supports the Allied cause. Driven from his own church, he returns home to find Kate in banker Mark Overman's arms, enraged he strangles the banker. Sentenced to life imprisonment, his ex-wife Ruth pleads with Governor Morrison to pardon the errant clergyman. Gordon is allowed to return to his family.
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- Released
- Production
- Mastercraft Photoplay Corporation
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- lost film
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Top Cast
Lawson Butt as Rev. Frank Gordon
Clara Williams as Kate Ransom
Adda Gleason as Ruth Gordon
Herschel Mayall as Mark Overman
Ben Alexander as Boy
Mary Jane Irving as Girl
Thurston Hall as Governor Morrison
Top Crew
Reginald Barker · Director
Thomas F. Dixon Jr. · Novel
Clyde De Vinna · Cinematographer
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