Name: The Gates of Doom
Released: 1917
Cast: Claire Mcdowell, Claire Mcdowell, L. C. Shumway, Jack Connolly, Mark Fenton

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Film Details

Release Date

Mar 5, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.; Red Feather Photoplays

Country

United States

Synopsis

Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant. Years later, Duane, Agatha, and the Grand Duke Alexis return to India where Agatha learns that her mother is imprisoned in the prince's harem. Confronting the prince to demand her mother's release, Agatha suffers a similar fate as her mother. Indore hears a woman's screams, enters the room and, recognizing her daughter, stabs the prince. Both women escape, Agatha aided by the hunchback Jang Sahib, who demands that she marry him in return. On her wedding day, Agatha chokes the hunchback to death and is condemned to die on a funeral pyre. On the day of the execution, Duane leads his troops into the walled city, thus rescuing Agatha from certain death.