The Dark Road

The Dark Road

55 mins | Drama, War | March 31, 1917

Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.

The Dark Road

55 mins | Drama, War | March 31, 1917

The Dark Road
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
Producers Kay-Bee Pictures, New York Motion Picture
Original title The Dark Road
Directors Charles Miller
Writers John Lynch, J.G. Hawks

Cast

Dorothy Dalton

as Cleo Morrison

Jack Livingston

as Capt. James Morrison

John Gilbert

as Cedric Constable (as Jack Gilbert)

Robert McKim

as Carlos Costa

Walt Whitman

as Sir John Constable

Lydia Knott

as Lady Mary Constable