The Knife

The Knife

Drama, Thriller | Feb. 1, 1918

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.

The Knife

Drama, Thriller | Feb. 1, 1918

The Knife
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.
Producers Select Pictures Corporation
Original title The Knife
Directors Robert G. Vignola
Writers Eugene Walter, Charles Maigne

Cast

Alice Brady

as Kate Tarleton

Frank Morgan

as Dr. Robert Manning

Crauford Kent

as Billy Meredith

Helen Lackaye

as Louise Meredith

Paul Doucet

as Jimmy Bristol

Alice Hollister

as Stella Hill

Johnnie Walker

as Hampton Gray

Frank Evans

as Detective Ellis