Sex

“LUXURY, SPLENDOR, RICHES, TEMPTATION CONQUEST, REGENERATION A LAVISH AND AT TIMES STARTLING ENTERTAINMENT.”

Why does a successful Broadway actress like Adrienne Renault (Louise Glaum) set her sights on a married man? She chooses Philip Overman (William Conklin), a husband with a wife at home, and uses her sex appeal to pull him away, only to discard her lover when a richer prospect appears. Fred Niblo directs the 1920 silent from a script by C. Gardner Sullivan, and its explicit scenes of seduction and debauchery stirred up censors on release.