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The Hindoo's Curse

Sep 11, 1912

0h 20m

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Overview

Adventurers Guy Randall and Jack Lowell flee English Army headquarters in India after being caught cheating. They follow their servant, Sukim, to a Hindu festival where they rob the temple's offering count and Randall steals a sacred jewel, despite Sukim's warning of a curse. The priests vow vengeance. Randall escapes to England, becomes a wealthy landowner, and forces an engaged Grace, daughter of impoverished Lord Leverton, to marry him. On his wedding night, the tracking Hindu avengers murder Randall, leaving Grace a widow free to marry her true love, Greyson.

Genres

Adventure

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

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Cast

Guy Randall

Harry Northrup

Grace

Zena Keefe

Tefft Johnson

Earle Williams

Jack Lowell

Herbert Barry

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