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The Knife (1918)

The Knife (1918)

Drama Thriller

Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.

Release Date: 1918, February 1
Directors: Robert G. Vignola
Countries: United States of America
Production: Select Pictures Corporation
Cast: Frank Morgan, Crauford Kent, Johnnie Walker, Paul Doucet, Frank Evans, Alice Brady, Alice Hollister, Helen Lackaye

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.