The Knife

Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.

6.0
19181h 15m

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.

Cast

Photo of Alice Brady

Alice Brady

Kate Tarleton

Photo of Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

Dr. Robert Manning

Photo of Crauford Kent

Crauford Kent

Billy Meredith

Photo of Alice Hollister

Alice Hollister

Stella Hill

Photo of Johnnie Walker

Johnnie Walker

Hampton Gray

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