Movie
The Knife
“Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.”
6.0/10
1918
1h 15m
en
Drama
Thriller
Overview
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.
Director
Robert G. Vignola
Writers
Charles Maigne
Movie Information
Release Date
February 1, 1918
Runtime
1h 15m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
1
Production
Select Pictures Corporation
