Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal melodrama from director Charles Brabin stars Lionel Barrymore as Jefferson Keane, a widowed US Senator who suddenly finds himself sought after by Consuela, a beautiful young woman played by Karen Morley. Smitten by her, Keane marries Consuela, unaware of the fact that she is in cahoots with a powerful lobbyist and is only pretending to be in love. After Consuela persuades Keane to take a bride for his vote on a water-rights bill, he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a scandal that he cannot escape. The aforementioned McDaniel plays a maid.
Karen Morley | Consuela Fairbanks | |
Nils Asther | Henri Brenner | |
Reginald Barlow | Senator Fred Withers | |
William Collier Sr. | Peter Babcock | |
Rafaela Ottiano | Mona Farrell | |
C. Henry Gordon | Alan Hinsdale |
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