The Blasphemer
Cast & Crew
O. E. Goebel
George Howard
Augusta Anderson
O. E. Goebel
O. E. Goebel
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Synopsis
John Harden, who has risen from obscurity to a position of power in the financial world, invites a group of intimate friends to a dinner celebration of a recent financial success on Wall Street, while his wife remains home with their children, neglected and forgotten. At the dinner, Harden toasts his success and boasts that he is the master of his fate, the captain of his soul, acknowledging neither God nor the devil. Soon afterward, he suffers a great loss, his family is reduced to poverty, and his friends desert him. His wife, whom he had previously deserted for an adventuress, struggles to rear their children, and his mother constantly prays for his salvation. Eventually, his childhood faith is restored after he rescues his daughter, who has been drugged and kept hostage in a Chinese opium den, and he returns to his family a changed man.
Director
O. E. Goebel
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Notes
The film was released in Great Britain in 1927 under the title World Power. Cast credits and some plot information was obtained from the film's February 24, 1927 review in the British trade publication Kinematograph Weekly. The review noted that the film contained exterior shots of Wall Street in New York City.
