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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!
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Swedish Herald Cover
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The Director, Cast and Author as depicted in the US Herald
One Sheet
Herald Center Fold
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.