

Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry the wealthy Robert Stafford despite her lack of love for him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him.

Agnes Ayres
Virginia Blaine
Lead
Jack Holt
Robert Stafford

Walter Hiers
James Gilley
Leigh Wyant
Fanny Blaine

George Kuwa
Oku
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