An opium addict living in China decides to return home to the United States, only to become addicted to alcohol. He decides to stop drinking after forgetting his past and realizing what he has become. He changes his name to John Smith and starts fighting against liquor interests.
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Robert Warwick as The Man, later known as John Smith
Doris Kenyon as Edith Mallon
Gerda Holmes as The Woman, aka Mary Leslie
Alex Shannon as Al Simpson
Ralph Delmore as Senator Mallon
John Reinhardt as Charles Waller
Frederick Truesdell as Congressman Mannersley
Émile Chautard Director
Émile Chautard Scenario Writer
George Archainbaud Assistant Director
Philip Hatkin Cinematography
Lucien Tainguy Director of Photography
United States 15 January 1917
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02 April 1917
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White).
23 September 1917
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business.
10 June 1917
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world.
22 February 1917
A young married woman's attraction to a violinist sours as his behaviour grows more and more aggressive.
29 October 1917
William Lewis accidentally shoots a policeman while breaking into a house as a prank with his friends.
06 June 1917
Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
13 January 1917
Kick In is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay.
13 January 1917
Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and will take his place that night as a fireman on the local freight.
07 January 1917
Truthful Tulliver, a Westerner and a journeying newspaperman, followed by Silver Lode Thompson, printer and compositor, arrives in Glory Hole to start a newspaper.
24 March 1917
Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States.
20 July 1917
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
01 October 1917
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money.
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