The Knife (1918)

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.

Released Feb. 1, 1918 75 min None+

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Keywords: imdb.white-slavery, imdb.based-on-play, aspectratio.1-33-1

Production Companies: Select Pictures Corporation

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: No Language, English