The Temptation of Adam - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Adam Cavanaugh becomes a theological student, and is about ready to take orders when he falls in love with Dorothy Blaine, and marries her. Dorothy, a splendid wife, is ambitious for her husband's success. She helps him to advance in the ...See moreAdam Cavanaugh becomes a theological student, and is about ready to take orders when he falls in love with Dorothy Blaine, and marries her. Dorothy, a splendid wife, is ambitious for her husband's success. She helps him to advance in the business world, and Adam comes to love money, and substitutes the worship of Mammon for the worship of the Cross. In time he becomes unscrupulous in a matter in which he makes money. Cavanaugh's daughter, Dolly, is ready to make her social debut, and Adam puts over a crooked deal to make the money he needs for the occasion. In order to do this, he ruins a business associate, Homer Forrest, who has a beautiful and resourceful wife. Rose, Homer Forrest's wife, learns the story of his financial wreck and vows to wreak vengeance and humiliation upon the man who has led to her husband's downfall. Rose plays the siren, leads Cavanaugh away from his wife, breaks up his home, and finally causes him to confess with his own lips that he was guilty of the crime for which her husband had been incarcerated. When he makes his confession, his wife, daughter and other witnesses are in another room. A dictograph is utilized, causing the man's words to be plainly heard. As he is led away to prison, he blames his wife because she taught him to worship money as against the worship of the Cross. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less