The Knife [942198] Released: 1918-02-01 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 75 mins Popularity: 0.2924 Vote Average: 6 Vote Count: 1 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 [10] Alice BradyKate Tarleton Frank MorganDr. Robert Manni Crauford KentBilly Meredith Helen LackayeLouise Meredith Paul DoucetJimmy Bristol Alice HollisterStella Hill Johnnie WalkerHampton Gray Frank EvansDetective Ellis Anne Cornwall Myra Brooks Trailers