(The Knife)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

Thriller

Runtime:

75 minutes

Year:

1918

Directors:

Robert G. Vignola

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Production companies:

Select Pictures Corporation

Actors:

Kate Tarleton

Dr. Robert Manning

Billy Meredith

Louise Meredith

Jimmy Bristol

Crews:

Writer

Theatre Play

Director