The Beggar of Cawnpore
Cast & Crew
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Charles Swickard
Director
H. B. Warner
Dr. Robert Lowndes
Lola May
Betty Archer
Wyndham Standing
Captain Guy Douglas
A. F. Hollingsworth
Mulhar Rao
H. E. Entwhistle
Colonel Archer
Film Details
Release Date
Apr
30,
1916
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee
Distribution Company
Triangle Film Corp.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6 reels
Synopsis
Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes. Lowndes succumbs, so Betty renounces him and marries Douglas. Later, Lowndes is a beggar in Cawnpore, and Betty realizes her mistake in marrying the unfaithful Douglas. She arrives in Cawnpore, and Lowndes, seeing her, decides to end his habit. Meanwhile, the Sepoy rebellion begins. Lowndes rescues Betty, and Douglas, sent to put down the uprising, turns traitor and is shot. This allows Betty and a rehabilitated Lowndes to marry.
Director
Charles Swickard
Director
Cast
H. B. Warner
Dr. Robert Lowndes
Lola May
Betty Archer
Wyndham Standing
Captain Guy Douglas
A. F. Hollingsworth
Mulhar Rao
H. E. Entwhistle
Colonel Archer
Wedgwood Nowell
Werner, the engineer
Film Details
Release Date
Apr
30,
1916
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee
Distribution Company
Triangle Film Corp.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6 reels
