Sweetheart of the Doomed

Sweetheart of the Doomed

DOOMED!!! To a fate worse than death was this woman who toyed with love.

NR 1917 · 50 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, War

Betrayed by a man when she was a naive young girl, Honore hates all men and takes her revenge on every man she can. When she meets Gen. Durand--the uncle of the man who betrayed her--she sees a chance to ruin his whole family. Durand falls in love with her and proposes, and she sees her plan for revenge about to come to fruition. Then she falls for a young French soldier who knows nothing about her past. Complications ensue.

Directed by Reginald Barker · Written by Jerome N. Wilson

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Louise Glaum Honore Zonlay
Charles Gunn Paul Montaigne
Tom Guise Gen. Gabriel Durand
Roy Laidlaw Gen. Jacques du Fresne

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