The Golden Bed

Jan 25, 1925

1h 30m

★ 3.5

Overview

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Flora Lee Peake

Lillian Rich

Col. Peake

Henry B. Walthall

Margaret Peake

Vera Reynolds

Marquis de San Pilar

Theodore Kosloff

Admah Holtz

Rod La Rocque

Bunny O'Neill

Warner Baxter

Savarac

Robert Cain

Amos Thompson

Robert Edeson

Nell Thompson

Julia Faye

Boarding House Maid (Uncredited)

Madame Sul-Te-Wan

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