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The One Woman

Name: The One Woman
Director: Reginald Barker
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1918-10-01
Duration: 60 min
Cast: Lawson Butt, Clara Williams, Adda Gleason, Herschel Mayall, Ben Alexander

19181h 0mDirected by Reginald Barker

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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