The Knife Trailer (1918)

"Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills." 01 February 1918 Drama, Thriller 75 mins

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

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

Anne Cornwall

Myra Brooks

Crew

Charles Maigne Writer

Eugene Walter Theatre Play

Robert G. Vignola Director

International Releases Dates

United States 01 February 1918

Production Companies

Select Pictures Corporation

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