The Knife

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 1, 1918

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Select Pictures Corporation

Cast

Alice Brady,Myra Brooks,Paul Doucet,Frank Morgan,Alice Hollister,Johnnie Walker,Frank Evans,Anne Cornwall,Helen Lackaye,Crauford Kent

Director

Robert G. Vignola

Writer

Charles Maigne,Eugene Walter

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0009267