The Social Leper

Overview

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. The warning comes true after Adrienne's ex-husband, John Dean, meets Warren, an old friend, and tells him the story of his marriage to Adrienne. He tells how her frivolity and malice caused both the death of their only child, and after their divorce John’s romance with Lorraine Barkley who left him for lawyer Henry Armstrong. Enraged by Adrienne's treachery, Warren goes to her apartment and kills her. Dean arrives after Warren has fled and is arrested for the murder. Believing that Dean is innocent, Lorraine persuades Armstrong to defend him. After a last-minute confession by John is cleared.

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Cast

Carlyle Blackwell

John Dean

June Elvidge

Adrienne Van Couver

Arthur Ashley

Robert Warren

Evelyn Greeley

Lorrainne Barkely

George MacQuarrie

Henry Armstrong

Muriel Ostriche

Isabel Berwin

Mrs. Stephen Barkley

Eugenie Woodward

Mrs. Dean

Edna Whistler

Madame Melvina