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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.

Top Cast

  • Alice Brady

    Alice Brady

    Kate Tarleton

  • Frank Morgan

    Frank Morgan

    Dr. Robert Manning

  • Crauford Kent

    Crauford Kent

    Billy Meredith

  • Helen Lackaye

    Helen Lackaye

    Louise Meredith

  • Paul Doucet

    Paul Doucet

    Jimmy Bristol

  • Alice Hollister

    Alice Hollister

    Stella Hill

  • Johnnie Walker

    Johnnie Walker

    Hampton Gray

  • Frank Evans

    Frank Evans

    Detective Ellis

  • Anne Cornwall

    Anne Cornwall

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.

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