Cheating the Public Trailer

Cheating the Public Trailer (1918)

"ALL! ALL! GRAPHICALLY SHOWN ALL! ALL in WILLIAM FOX'S Stupendous 1918 Cinemelodrama "Cheating the Public" THE GREATEST MELODRAMA EVER FILMED" 20 January 1918 Drama 70 mins

John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

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Cast

Enid Markey

as Mary Garvin

Ralph Lewis

as John Dowling

Wanda Hawley

as Grace Martin

Bertram Grassby

as Chester Dowling

Tom Wilson

as 'Bull' Thompson

Edward Peil Sr.

as Mary's Attorney

Carrie Clark Ward

as Mrs. O'Toole

Fanny Midgley

as Mary's Mother

Frankie Lee

as Frankie Garvin

Charles Edler

as Martin

Arthur Shilling

as Dowling's Secretary

Fritz von Hardenberg

as Factory Inspector

International Releases Dates

United States 20 January 1918

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