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Cyclone Higgins, D.D.

May 13, 1918

0h 50m

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Overview

Anson Campbell returns from the seminary to a small village on the New England coast. When the puritanical villagers persecute Bess Morgan, a "fallen" woman, he sticks up for her, telling them that their form of "Christianity" isn't Christian at all. This has no effect on the bigoted villagers and they turn their anger on him. Complications ensue.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Metro Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Cyrus 'Cyclone' Higgins, D.D.

Francis X. Bushman

Sally Phillips

Beverly Bayne

Dorothea

Baby Ivy Ward

Johnathon Moses Chi Wu Lung

Charles Fang

Mary Higgins

Helen Dunbar

Owen Chase

Eugene Borden

Jasper Stone

Jack Prescott

The Widow Pryor

Sue Balfour

Old Settler

Pop Kennard

Sheriff

Robert Carson

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