The Eternal Temptress (1917)

Directors

Émile Chautard

Cast

Alan Hale, Elliott Dexter, Lina Cavalieri

The story

As described in a film magazine, Harry Althrop, a young American, is in love with Princess Cordelia and when he finds his funds are getting low he forges the signature of Thomas Lawton, the American ambassador and a close friend of his father, to a check so that he might buy the beautiful Italian princess some jewelry. Count Rudolph Frizel of Austria, anxious to obtain information concerning Italy's stand in an approaching war, threatens to expose Harry unless he provides the documents from the American embassy. It turns out that the specific documents are readily available with the ambassador, and Harry picks them up and gives them to…

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