Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.
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H.B. Warner as Dr. Robert Lowndes
Lola May as Betty Archer
Wyndham Standing as Capt. Guy Douglas
Alfred Hollingsworth as Mulhar Rao
Harold Entwistle as Col. Archer
Wedgwood Nowell as Werner - the Engineer
Charles Swickard Director
C. Gardner Sullivan Writer
Thomas H. Ince Producer
Clyde De Vinna Director of Photography
United States 29 April 1916
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