Without Benefit of Clergy

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.

Cast

Nigel De Brulier

as Pir Khan

Virginia Brown Faire

as Ameera

Boris Karloff

as Ahmed Khan

Percy Marmont

Thomas Holding

as Holden

Evelyn Selbie

as Ameera's mother

Ruth Cummings

as Alice Sanders (as Ruth Sinclair)

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