The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara), a young and innocent girl, unaware of the wiles of men poses for artist Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), meets Robert Sinclair (Hugh Thompson) who has no problem seducing her a…
The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara), a young and innocent girl, unaware of the wiles of men poses for artist Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), meets Robert Sinclair (Hugh Thompson) who has no problem seducing her and she is soon pregnant. The caddish Sinclair betrays and deserts her and her stern father is none to pleased with poor Mary either. The death of her baby causes her to sink to the lowest depths, where she is found by Felix in his search for a model to represent the end of bad-choice path. The appearance of Sinclair and his fiancee at the studio brings Mary a desire for revenge and she forces Sinclair to set her up in an apartment and service her never-ending desire for money. To do so, Sinclair is forced to steal and, with evidence of his crime, Mary makes him promise to marry her. But on the morning of the wedding Mary comes to the church and tells all. Sinclair departs in disgrace and Felix goes to comfort poor Mary. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> Though her parents have lived in the famous Greenwich Village section of New York City for many years, Mary Lyndo has been carefully brought up and knows nothing of the gay art colony. Sho is delighted when an artist asks her to pose for a Madonna he has been commissioned to paint, but while posing she falls a victim to the wiles of Robert Sinclair. Her father turns her from the house and later Sinclair turns her adrift and she falls to the sodden level of the low dives. There the artist finds her, while in search for a model for a picture of "Sin," and once more she meets Sinclair and wrecks a unique revenge. —Moving Picture World synopsis Theda Bara plays the heroine, betrayed, forsaken and outcast, who finds interestingly melodramatic means of getting revenge on the villain. She forces him to come to the church where, that same day, he was to have married a rich girl and before the fashionable guests invited to the other wedding, now broken off. she makes him say, "I will take this woman," but in her turn she spurns him as unfit to wed any woman, even her, the disreputable outcast. He had hoped to save his yellow back from wearing the stripes; but when she is through with him the detective leads him off to the prison. The picture is a melodrama and uses all the privileges of such that it needs, and it has, by way of return, all the forceful effectiveness of its straight and unhampered path to justice. —Moving Picture World synopsis
The Forbidden Path
Crime,Drama,Romance
Film Details
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara), a young and innocent girl, unaware of the wiles of men poses for artist Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), meets Robert Sinclair (Hugh Thompson) who has no problem seducing her and she is soon pregnant. The caddish Sinclair betrays and deserts her and her stern father is none to pleased with poor Mary either. The death of her baby causes her to sink to the lowest depths, where she is found by Felix in his search for a model to represent the end of bad-choice path.
The appearance of Sinclair and his fiancee at the studio brings Mary a desire for revenge and she forces Sinclair to set her up in an apartment and service her never-ending desire for money. To do so, Sinclair is forced to steal and, with evidence of his crime, Mary makes him promise to marry her. But on the morning of the wedding Mary comes to the church and tells all.
Sinclair departs in disgrace and Felix goes to comfort poor Mary. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> Though her parents have lived in the famous Greenwich Village section of New York City for many years, Mary Lyndo has been carefully brought up and knows nothing of the gay art colony. Sho is delighted when an artist asks her to pose for a Madonna he has been commissioned to paint, but while posing she falls a victim to the wiles of Robert Sinclair.
Her father turns her from the house and later Sinclair turns her adrift and she falls to the sodden level of the low dives. There the artist finds her, while in search for a model for a picture of "Sin," and once more she meets Sinclair and wrecks a unique revenge. —Moving Picture World synopsis Theda Bara plays the heroine, betrayed, forsaken and outcast, who finds interestingly melodramatic means of getting revenge on the villain.
She forces him to come to the church where, that same day, he was to have married a rich girl and before the fashionable guests invited to the other wedding, now broken off. she makes him say, "I will take this woman," but in her turn she spurns him as unfit to wed any woman, even her, the disreputable outcast. He had hoped to save his yellow back from wearing the stripes; but when she is through with him the detective leads him off to the prison.
The picture is a melodrama and uses all the privileges of such that it needs, and it has, by way of return, all the forceful effectiveness of its straight and unhampered path to justice. —Moving Picture World synopsis.