''The Redeeming Sin'' is a 1925 American silent

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directed by

J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first filmmakers to ...

and starring

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. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. The story was remade in 1929 by

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(the later purchaser of Vitagraph) as '' The Redeeming Sin'' starring

Dolores Costello Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903Costello's obituary in ''The New York Times'' says that she was born on September 17, 1905. – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. ...

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, Joan (Nazimova), member of a band of Apache thieves, resents the attention of Lupin (Tellegen), their leader. She leaves and goes to the café of Papa ChuChu (Harlan), where a bunch of aristocrats see her dancing. One of them, Paul Dubois (Miller), is attracted to her. Lupin, jealous, waits outside to take her back, but she remains in the café all night. The next morning she meets Paul and tells him she wants to become a lady; he fastidiously suggests things that will help her and she takes him seriously. Later he is impressed by her earnestness and becomes interested in her, and she falls in love with him. One day she sees him attentive to another woman and becomes so jealous that she returns to Lupin and tells him of a statue of the Madonna with a pearl necklace that Paul's mother is giving the church, and makes him promise to that he will get the pearls and kill Paul. She is to give the signal, but discovers that the girl is Paul's sister. It is too late to stop Lupin. For days she broods, and Lupin, who loves her blindly, takes back the pearls, but he is wounded by one of his followers. In the church Joan sees Paul and is overjoyed that he was only slightly injured. However, the sight of the wounded Lupin brings her to the realization that it is Lupin that she really loves.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of ''The Redeeming Sin'' located in any film archives, it is a

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.''The Redeeming Sin'' (1925) at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted
(Wayback Machine) Retrieved July 21, 2018

References

External links

* * 1925 films American silent feature films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton Lost American drama films American black-and-white films 1925 lost films 1920s American films {{Silent-film-stub