The Knife

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.

Cast

Alice Brady

Kate Tarleton

Frank Morgan

Dr. Robert Manning

Crauford Kent

Billy Meredith

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Helen Lackaye

Louise Meredith

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Paul Doucet

Jimmy Bristol

Alice Hollister

Stella Hill

Johnnie Walker

Hampton Gray

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Frank Evans

Detective Ellis

Anne Cornwall

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Myra Brooks