Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
Frank Mayo
as Barry Craven
Mildred Harris
as Gillian Locke
Norman Kerry
as Said
Bertram Grassby
as Kunwar Singh
Evelyn Brent
as Lolaire
Edythe Chapman
as Aunt Caroline
Josef Swickard
as John Locke
Lorimer Johnston
as Peter Peters
Toy Gallagher
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Sherwood Mertz
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
