Release Date

01 Feb, 1918

Runtime

01:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.

Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments, the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella, whose principal business is white slave trafficking, drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice," run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol, where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert, Detective Ellis, and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate, who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.

Original Title

The Knife

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Actors

Alice Brady

Frank Morgan

Crauford Kent

Helen Lackaye

Paul Doucet

Alice Hollister

Johnnie Walker

Frank Evans

Anne Cornwall

Myra Brooks

Crew

Charles Maigne

Robert G. Vignola

Eugene Walter