Film

An Innocent Magdalene

1916 · 50m · Drama

IMDb

6.2

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.

Lillian Gish

Dorothy Raleigh

Spottiswoode Aitken

Col. Raleigh

Sam De Grasse

Forbes Stewart

Mary Alden

The Woman

Seymour Hastings

The Preacher

Jennie Lee

Mammy

William De Vaull

Old Joe

• Allan DwanDirector
• Roy SomervilleWriter
• D.W. GriffithStory
• Victor FlemingDirector of Photography

Release date

June 18, 1916

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama

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