The Inherited Taint

The Inherited Taint

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The Inherited Taint

1911

0h 12m

9.0(1 votes)

Drama

Overview

Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.

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Maurice Costello

Maurice Costello

Herbert Warning

Helen Gardner

Helen Gardner

The Nurse

Lillian Walker

Lillian Walker

The Coquette

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