The Social Leper (1917)
Directed by Harley Knoles
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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Top cast
Carlyle BlackwellJohn Dean
June ElvidgeAdrienne Van Couver
Arthur AshleyRobert Warren
Evelyn GreeleyLorrainne Barkely
George MacQuarrieHenry Armstrong
Muriel Ostriche- Isabel BerwinMrs. Stephen Barkley
- Eugenie WoodwardMrs. Dean
