The Forbidden Path is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine,[3] while posing for Felix Benavente (Mason) for a painting for a church, Mary Lynde (Bara), a true Madonna type unaware of the wiles of men, meets Robert Sinclair (Thompson) and, believing him sincere, accepts his attentions.

Her father (Law) casts her from his home, and Mary goes to live at Sinclair's mountain lodge.

The death of her child takes the last bit of ambition from her and she sinks to the lowest depths.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors issued the film an Adults Only permit and required cuts, in Reel 4, of all interior views of the house of ill fame showing inmates (leave in scene where three young women rush out to aid Mary and last scene in house where woman shows Mary the dead baby) to include all views of statuary in background, Reel 5, young woman soliciting man, closeup of alleged sex pervert knitting in foreground, all but one view of men of same character being ejected from resort to conform with National Board eliminations, and, Reel 6, a shooting scene.