Cheating the Public

ALL! ALL! GRAPHICALLY SHOWN ALL! ALL in WILLIAM FOX'S Stupendous 1918 Cinemelodrama "Cheating the Public" THE GREATEST MELODRAMA EVER FILMED

Cheating the Public — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 20, 1918
• Runtime
• 70 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Richard Stanton

Cheating the Public — Cast

Enid Markey Mary Garvin Ralph Lewis John Dowling Wanda Hawley Grace Martin Bertram Grassby Chester Dowling Tom Wilson 'Bull' Thompson Edward Peil Sr. Mary's Attorney Carrie Clark Ward Mrs. O'Toole Fanny Midgley Mary's Mother