CinemaOSMovie · 1918 · 1h 10m

Cheating the Public

ALL! ALL! GRAPHICALLY SHOWN ALL! ALL in WILLIAM FOX'S Stupendous 1918 Cinemelodrama "Cheating the Public" THE GREATEST MELODRAMA EVER FILMED

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John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

Directed byRichard Stanton

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 10m
Language
EN
Released
January 20, 1918
Studios
Fox Film Corporation

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Enid Markey

Enid Markey

Mary Garvin

Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis

John Dowling

Wanda Hawley

Wanda Hawley

Grace Martin

Bertram Grassby

Bertram Grassby

Chester Dowling

Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson

'Bull' Thompson

Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

Mary's Attorney

Carrie Clark Ward

Carrie Clark Ward

Mrs. O'Toole

Fanny Midgley

Fanny Midgley

Mary's Mother

Frankie Lee

Frankie Lee

Frankie Garvin

Charles Edler

Martin

Creative team
Directed by
Richard Stanton
Richard Stanton
Written by
Richard Stanton
Richard Stanton
Mary Murillo

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