The Beggar of Cawnpore (1916)
Melodrama | 30 April 1916
Cast:
H. B. Warner, Lola May, Wyndham Standing [ More ]Director:
Charles SwickardWriter:
C. Gardner SullivanProduction Company:
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-BeeA photo-illustrated, two-full-page advertisement for The Beggar of Cawnpore in the 6 May 1916 Motion Picture News stated that the film was based on the 1857 Indian Sepoy Rebellion "and the terrible massacre of Cawnpore which was a vital point in the history of India." According to an item in the 6 May 1916 New York Clipper, "Much of the [film's] scenery typical of India was found within a few miles of Inceville," Thomas Ince's outdoor studios in northern Santa Monica, CA.
The 6 May 1916 issues of Motography and Moving Picture World noted that The Beggar of Cawnpore opened that week, beginning Sunday, 23 April, at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City.
The city of Cawnpore, India, was also reproduced in Lasky's The Victoria Cross (1916), a story of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion released later in the year.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. ...
A photo-illustrated, two-full-page advertisement for The Beggar of Cawnpore in the 6 May 1916 Motion Picture News stated that the film was based on the 1857 Indian Sepoy Rebellion "and the terrible massacre of Cawnpore which was a vital point in the history of India." According to an item in the 6 May 1916 New York Clipper, "Much of the [film's] scenery typical of India was found within a few miles of Inceville," Thomas Ince's outdoor studios in northern Santa Monica, CA.
The 6 May 1916 issues of Motography and Moving Picture World noted that The Beggar of Cawnpore opened that week, beginning Sunday, 23 April, at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City.
The city of Cawnpore, India, was also reproduced in Lasky's The Victoria Cross (1916), a story of the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion released later in the year.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British Army Medical Corps, practices in a small East Indian Desert 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. However, another of Betty's suitors, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes. Betty's father, Colonel Archer, tells Lowndes to leave the army and never talk to his daughter again. Lowndes succumbs to morphine, so Betty renounces him and marries Douglas. Later, Lowndes is a beggar and hasheesh smoker in Cawnpore, and Betty realizes her mistake in marrying the unfaithful Douglas. She arrives in Cawnpore, and Lowndes, seeing her, decides to end his habit. Meanwhile, the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion begins. Lowndes rescues Betty from a massacre, and Douglas, sent to put down the uprising, turns traitor and is shot. This allows Betty and a rehabilitated Lowndes to ...
Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British Army Medical Corps, practices in a small East Indian Desert 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. However, another of Betty's suitors, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes. Betty's father, Colonel Archer, tells Lowndes to leave the army and never talk to his daughter again. Lowndes succumbs to morphine, so Betty renounces him and marries Douglas. Later, Lowndes is a beggar and hasheesh smoker in Cawnpore, and Betty realizes her mistake in marrying the unfaithful Douglas. She arrives in Cawnpore, and Lowndes, seeing her, decides to end his habit. Meanwhile, the 1857 Sepoy Rebellion begins. Lowndes rescues Betty from a massacre, and Douglas, sent to put down the uprising, turns traitor and is shot. This allows Betty and a rehabilitated Lowndes to marry.
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