Sin's Penalty (1916)
In the western mountains, young physician Brent hopes to find relief from the embraces of the infatuated Lola Wilson. He loved her at one time, but when he discovered that she had murdered her husband to be free to marry him, he had nothing but contempt for her. As her former lover and Wilson's physician, he covered up the crime by fixing the death certificate so she wouldn't need to pay the penalty. Wilson's sister, suspicious of Brent's and Lola's actions, puts a detective, Hanley, on their trail. He follows Brent to California; Lola, learning Brent's address, goes on the same train. In California, Brent has fallen in love with Helen, a simple little daughter of the mountains whom he had rescued from serious injury in a snow slide. When Lola arrives she finds Brent and tells him that unless he agrees to marry her, she will accuse him of being an accomplice to the murder. Hanley, spying on them in the next room, hears this. Heartbroken, for he will not marry Helen with this blight on his part, Brent pens a farewell letter to her, then writes a confession of his connection to the crime. His hopes of a happy life blasted, he is about to cross Devil's Pass, a feat which no mortal could survive, when Helen rescues him. Meanwhile, Hanley obtains possession of the confession, and when he sees Lola on a toboggan, he gives her the document. After a glance at its terrible contents, he face becomes livid with fear and she attempts to wrest the incriminating evidence from his grasp. A terrible struggle follows and the toboggan upsets, hurling the two struggling forms far, far below, where the cruel, jagged rocks crush the life from both bodies. The next day, when Brent comes upon the scene and sees the evidence of the tragedy, he knows he might at last forget the horrible past and live only for the future and the happiness it holds for him.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Wolbert | Director |
| Fred W. Hiller | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Corinne Griffith | |
| Otto Lederer | |
| Anne Schaefer | |
| Webster Campbell |
