The Knife (1918)
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.
Director: Robert G. Vignola
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Alice Brady as Kate Tarleton |
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Frank Morgan as Dr. Robert Manning |
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Crauford Kent as Billy Meredith |
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Helen Lackaye as Louise Meredith |
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Paul Doucet as Jimmy Bristol |
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Alice Hollister as Stella Hill |
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Johnnie Walker as Hampton Gray |
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Frank Evans as Detective Ellis |
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Anne Cornwall as |
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Myra Brooks as |
| Writing | Charles Maigne | Writer |
| Writing | Eugene Walter | Theatre Play |
| Directing | Robert G. Vignola | Director |
