Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, author and poet Jeffrey Dwyer (Gilbert) has a conflicted nature, at times he has high ideals but he also feels strongly the appeal of the purely sensual. He is strongly attracted to Joan Converse (Boardman), who drops her flapper nature when she falls in love with him, but he neglects her when he meets the flashing, dashing Inez Martin (Pringle), a worldly woman with strong sex appeal. Inez finally throws him over and marries Harry Todd (McCullough), but the marriage is a failure. Jeffrey, returning to his senses after a period of debauchery and wild jazz parties, marries Joan. They go to a lodge in the mountains and are happy until Inez, seeking to win him, takes a house nearby. For months he fights the infatuation, but one night writes a letter to Joan and goes to Inez. However, his better nature makes him realize himself as he really is, and he returns to Joan, who understands and forgives him.Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ''The Wife of the Centaur'' (1924) located in any film archives, it is a lost film. A few seconds of Boardman from this film is included (from around 3:07 to 3:10) in ''Twenty Years After'' (1944), a promotional short made by MGM to celebrate its 20th anniversary.Footnotes
Sources
* Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott (1988). ''King Vidor, American.'' University of California Press, Berkeley.External links
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