A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Erich von Stroheim
as Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin
Rudolph Christians
as Andrew J. Hughes
Miss DuPont
as Helen Hughes
Maude George
as Princess Olga Petchnikoff
Mae Busch
as Princess Vera Petchnikoff
Dale Fuller
as Maruschka
Cesare Gravina
as Cesare Ventucci
Malvina Polo
as Marietta
Albert Edmondson
as Pavel Pavlich
Mary Philbin
as Crippled Girl (uncredited)
Nigel De Brulier
as Monk (uncredited)
C.J. Allen
as Albert I