Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Direction
DeMille's infamous 'orgy sequence' — scandalous for 1922.
Cinematography
Expressionist prison shadows before German cinema made it cool.
Acting
Leatrice Joy's face does what dialogue never could.
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Leatrice Joy
Lydia Thorne
Thomas Meighan
Daniel J. O'Bannon
Lois Wilson
Evans (Lydia's maid)
John Miltern
Gov. Stephan Albee
George Fawcett
Judge Homans
Julia Faye
Mrs. Drummond
Edythe Chapman
Adeline Bennett
Jack Mower
Drummond (policeman)
Dorothy Cumming
Eleanor Bellington
Casson Ferguson
Bobby Dorest
Michael D. Moore
Dicky Evans
James Neill
Butler
Sylvia Ashton
Prison Matron
Raymond Hatton
Brown
Mabel Van Buren
Prisoner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film helped birth the 'fallen woman' cycle of 1920s cinema, where female pleasure always demands punishment.
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