Cheating the Public (1918)
• January 20th, 1918 • 1h 10min
Drama
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Lovebound
Released on: 1923-04-15
Drama
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mob...
A Love Sublime
Released on: 1917-03-11
Drama
A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sin...
Finders Keepers
Released on: 1921-01-01
Comedy, Drama
Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself on...
The Glory of Yolanda
Released on: 1917-01-20
Drama, Romance
A Russian peasant girl becomes a member of the Imperial Ballet.
Environment
Released on: 1917-04-16
Drama, Romance
In their small-minded New England village Liz and her alcoholic father are rejected by the townspeop...
Barriers Burned Away
Released on: 1925-01-04
Drama
In 1871, a Chicago undercover detective gets a job as a porter in a disreputable saloon to get infor...
Unconquered Woman
Released on: 1922-05-01
Drama
Helen offers herself in marriage to the winner of a poker game in order to obtain money to replace w...
Shadows of the Sea
Released on: 1922-01-10
Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
An idealistic sea captain, Dick Carson (Conway Tearle), is wounded by revenue officers while smuggli...
Little Women
Released on: 1918-11-30
Drama, Family, Romance
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yea...
Esmeralda
Released on: 1922-06-01
Drama
Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Qua...
The Sisters
Released on: 1912-01-12
Drama
In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, ...
Paging Emma
Released on: 1999-11-08
Mystery, Drama
An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduc...
The Right of Way
Released on: 1920-02-29
Drama
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the sam...
Over the Hills
Released on: 1911-11-30
Drama, Romance
A young woman who disguises herself as a man to go gold prospecting after her father and brother for...
Shackles of Gold
Released on: 1922-04-30
Drama, Romance
Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire ...
Under Two Flags
Released on: 1916-07-31
Adventure, Drama
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is...