Release, runtime and language

1934 · 75 mins · English

Directed by

Jack Townley

Starring

Gertrude Astor, Robert Frazer, Glen Boles, John St. Polis, Lynton Brent, Isabel La Mal

During a murder trial, the defendant’s lawyer argues that her spiral into crime, prostitution and degradation was the direct result of the oppressive, fanatically religious upbringing imposed by her puritanical mother. He seeks to prove that the mother’s extreme moral strictness shaped the girl’s tragic path.