“Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.”
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.
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Cast
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Alice Brady
Kate Tarleton
Known for
My Man Godfrey
Young Mr. Lincoln
Frank Morgan
Dr. Robert Manning
Known for
The Wizard of Oz
The Shop Around the Corner
Crauford Kent
Billy Meredith
Also in
Mutiny on the Bounty
Other Men's Shoes
Helen Lackaye
Louise Meredith
Also in
Neal of the Navy
Paul Doucet
Jimmy Bristol
Also in
The Heart of a Siren
The Black Panther's Cub
Alice Hollister
Stella Hill
Also in
From the Manger to the Cross
By a Woman's Wit
Johnnie Walker
Hampton Gray
Also in
The Matinee Idol
So This Is Love
Frank Evans
Detective Ellis
Known for
A Corner in Wheat
Anne Cornwall
Known for
College
Myra Brooks
Also in
Polly with a Past
The Lifted Veil
Robert G. Vignola Director · Charles Maigne Writer Eugene Walter Author
United States release February 1, 1918 · Produced in United States
Production
Select Pictures Corporation
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · February 1, 1918
Theatrical
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