Deserted at the Altar [SEP] director
Deserted at the Altar
Deserted at the Altar is a 1922 American silent film melodrama directed by William K. Howard. It stars Bessie Love and Tully Marshall. Its preservation status is unknown.
Production.
The film is a Poverty Row (Gower Street) production, and was filmed in only ten days.
Plot.
Two villains plan to steal the inheritance of Anna Moore (Love) by marrying her. When her brother Tommy (Lee) is hit by a car, the wealthy driver pays the doctor
it deserted. Exhausted, she falls asleep on the pillaged altar. When the Buddhist priest and some locals return, they find the small girl laying on the altar.
They speculate she must be a goddess come to life, bowing down to her and offering her homage. For ten years the little foreigner holds undisputed sway as priestess of the temple. At first she was too young to realize her position, and gradually her old life fades away, and seems but a dream. She could scarcely remember any life save