The Knife

Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.

The Knife — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 1, 1918
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Drama, Thriller
• Director
• Robert G. Vignola

The Knife — Cast

Alice Brady Kate Tarleton Frank Morgan Dr. Robert Manning Crauford Kent Billy Meredith Helen Lackaye Louise Meredith

P

Paul Doucet Jimmy Bristol Alice Hollister Stella Hill Johnnie Walker Hampton Gray

F

Frank Evans Detective Ellis