Theda Bara's stardom had peaked and was perched upon its inevitable downslide by the time she appeared in Fox's The Soul of Buddha. Bara plays an amorous Javanese girl who is sequestered in a Buddhist shrine by her nervous mother. Unable to adjust to her cloistered existence, the girl begins making goo-goo eyes at the head priest, very nearly bringing about the poor man's downfall. Bara commits the ultimate sin when she allows a visiting English officer to touch her bare forearm. As a result, both the girl and the officer are condemned to death, a fate which they escape by riding off madly into the desert. Upon reaching civilization, Bara marries her rescuer but finds that she will never be free of the curse placed upon her head by the outraged Buddhist priests. The story wends its merry way to a lurid conclusion, in which Bara, having driven her poor husband to drink, finally pays the price for her various blasphemies.
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