A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

Paul Robeson
as Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins / His brother Sylvester

Mercedes Gilbert
as Sister Martha Jane

Julia Theresa Russell
as Isabelle

Marshall Rogers
as Speakeasy Proprietor

Lawrence Chenault
as Yello-Curley' Hinds - the Phony Reverend's Former Jailmate

Chester A. Alexander
as Deacon Simpkins - a Church Elder

Walter Henry Cornick
as Brother Amos - a Church Elder

Lillian Johnson
as "Sis" Ca'line

Madame Robinson
as "Sis" Lucy
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I love silent films, though this one heralding the first film performance of Paul Robeson is simply good or decent, not great or essential. Robeson's performance is excellent in an otherwise average melodrama, and it's clear he's going to be a star of the silver screen. In her only cinematic appeara...