The Knife

⭐ 6.0/10 📅 1918 ⏱️ 75 min 🎭 Drama, Thriller

Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.

📋 Details

🎬 Director

Robert G. Vignola

✍️ Writers

Charles Maigne

🌍 Countries

United States of America

🏢 Production

Select Pictures Corporation

🗣️ Languages

No Language

🎭 Genres

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.