The Stain (1914)

Plot Summary

An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making his way up the ladder of success with the help of a political boss, the wife he left behind (Eleanor Woodruff) remains destitute and is forced to give up her child to an orphanage. The girl is adopted and grows up (played as an adult by Virginia Pearson) to become the secretary to an honest young lawyer. But the girl has the same quirk that her father had, and it causes her to steal a bracelet at a department store. She is arrested and finds herself before her father, who is now a judge.

Full Cast & Characters

Edward José

Stevens (later The Judge)

Thurlow Bergen

The Young Lawyer

Virginia Pearson

Stevens' Daughter

Eleanor Woodruff

Stevens' Wife

Sam J. Ryan

The Political Boss (as Sam Ryan)

Theda Bara

Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)

Creighton Hale

Office Clerk

Director & Crew

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