The Beggar of Cawnpore

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Charles Swickard

Status Released

Release Date 1916-04-29

Storyline

Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.