
Bara is unusually cast as a nearly virginal nurse and actress. She does manage to get one man to blow his brains out before she reforms and marries an Episcopal priest.

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The first time I saw When a Woman Sins I was alone in a loft built inside a deconsecrated church; the projector’s clack echoed off stained glass still cracked from the 1906 quake....
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J. Gordon Edwards

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