Cheating the Public (1918)
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.
Director: Richard Stanton
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Enid Markey as Mary Garvin |
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Ralph Lewis as John Dowling |
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Wanda Hawley as Grace Martin |
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Bertram Grassby as Chester Dowling |
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Tom Wilson as 'Bull' Thompson |
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Edward Peil Sr. as Mary's Attorney |
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Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. O'Toole |
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Fanny Midgley as Mary's Mother |
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Frankie Lee as Frankie Garvin |
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Charles Edler as Martin |
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Barbara Conley as Bobby |
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Baby Cohen as The Baby Brother |
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James Titus as The Judge |
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Henry Peal as The District Attorney |
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Joseph Hartley as The Twelfth Juror |
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James Morgan as Warden |
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Arthur Glynn as The Governor |
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James P. McNeill as Dowling's Butler |
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Arthur Shilling as Dowling's Secretary |
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Fritz von Hardenberg as Factory Inspector |
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Miles McCormack as |
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Beverly Griffith as |
| Directing | Richard Stanton | Director |
| Writing | Richard Stanton | Writer |
| Writing | Mary Murillo | Story |
| Writing | Edward Sedgwick | Writer |
| Camera | Devereaux Jennings | Director of Photography |
