The Knife

February. 01,1918      NR
Rating:
4.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Alice Brady as  Kate Tarleton
Frank Morgan as  Dr. Robert Manning
Crauford Kent as  Billy Meredith
Alice Hollister as  Stella Hill
Johnnie Walker as  Hampton Gray
Anne Cornwall as  

Reviews

BootDigest
1918/02/01

Such a frustrating disappointment

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Lawbolisted
1918/02/02

Powerful

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Moustroll
1918/02/03

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Zandra
1918/02/04

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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