To Save Her Soul

To Save Her Soul

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 27, 1909

Runtime

0h 14m

Genres

Drama

User Score

40%

Original Title

To Save Her Soul

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Director

D.W. Griffith

Description

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.