Release Date

20 Jan, 1918

Runtime

01:10: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

ALL! ALL! GRAPHICALLY SHOWN ALL! ALL in WILLIAM FOX'S Stupendous 1918 Cinemelodrama "Cheating the Public" THE GREATEST MELODRAMA EVER FILMED

John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

Original Title

Cheating the Public

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Actors

Enid Markey

Ralph Lewis

Wanda Hawley

Bertram Grassby

Tom Wilson

Edward Peil Sr.

Carrie Clark Ward

Fanny Midgley

Frankie Lee

Charles Edler

Barbara Conley

Baby Cohen

James Titus

Henry Peal

Joseph Hartley

James Morgan

Arthur Glynn

James P. McNeill

Arthur Shilling

Fritz von Hardenberg

Miles McCormack

Crew

Richard Stanton

Richard Stanton

Mary Murillo

Edward Sedgwick

Devereaux Jennings