The Woman on the Index
Cast & Crew
Hobart Henley
Pauline Frederick
Wyndham Standing
Willard Mack
Ben Hendricks
Jere Austin
Film Details
Synopsis
Sylvia Martin, a poor shopgirl, runs away from her abusive father and almost succumbs to the cold on the doorstep of Louis Gordon, a crook. They marry, but later when faced with capture, Gordon kills himself. Gordon's gang accuses Sylvia of murder, and although she is acquitted for lack of evidence, her name is included in the Police Index. Years later, upon finding the Index on the shelf of her second husband, Washington diplomat David Maber, Sylvia fears exposure. Her fears heighten when her arresting officer, John Alden, now chief of the Secret Service, tries to induce her to entrap a Bolshevik agent, Hugo Declasse, who is attracted to her. When Alden appeals to patriotism, she acquiesces. Declasse finds the Index and threatens to expose her unless she cooperates in getting plans for an uprising to London agents, but Declasse is foiled when his trusted Japanese butler turns out to be a Secret Service agent. Maber, learning of Sylvia's past, forgives her.
Director
Hobart Henley
Cast
Pauline Frederick
Wyndham Standing
Willard Mack
Ben Hendricks
Jere Austin
Louis Stern
Frank Joyner
Florence Ashbrooke
Florida Kingsley
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Notes
In the play from which this film was adapted, the villain was a German spy, not a Bolshevik as portrayed in the film. Pauline Frederick and Willard Mack were married.
