Her Defiance is usually associated with other feminist melodramas that Madison produced in 1916, including Alias Jane Jones, A Soul Enslaved, and A Heart's Crucible.
Motion Picture News claimed Her Defiance was "a sympathetic subject along conventional lines but benefited by several original situations that add much to its value," on January 15, 1916.
[1] Adeline Gabler (Cleo Madison) is a young farm girl whose brother is scheming to marry her off to an elderly rich neighbor, "Old Scapin" (Willis Marks).
When Adeline falls in love with a city boy, Frank Warren (Edward Hearn), her brother Theron (Taylor N. Duncan) takes the first opportunity to trick his sister into believing her lover has abandoned her.
Adeline, pregnant, is forced to marry Scapin, but at the conclusion of the ceremony, she creates havoc by pushing her husband away and escaping in a buggy to the city.