The Knife (1918)

February. 01,1918

4.6

| Drama Thriller

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.

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Cast

Alice Brady as Kate Tarleton

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Frank Morgan as Dr. Robert Manning

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Crauford Kent as Billy Meredith

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Reviews

Claysaba

1918/02/01

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Livestonth

1918/02/02

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Ezmae Chang

1918/02/03

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Abegail Noëlle

1918/02/04

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.