Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.
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William H. Tooker as Rev. Robert Martin
Norma Shearer as Julie Martin
Ruth Dwyer as Mary Forrest
Walter Miller as Stephen Gregory
Eugene Borden as Sam Gregory
Matthew Betz as Bert Robinson
John B. O'Brien as Man of Dawn
Robert Kenyon as Martin (young man)
Myrtle Morse as Mrs. Martin
Jack Crosby as Raymond Pritchard
Downing Clarke as Major Wellington
Christy Cabanne Screenplay
James C. Bradford Music Arranger
Christy Cabanne Story
Georges Benoît Director of Photography
Stewart B. Moss Special Effects
Christy Cabanne Director
United States 03 October 1920
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