Cheating the Public (1918)
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.
- Release date
- January 20, 1918
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Enid Markey as Mary Garvin
- Ralph Lewis as John Dowling
- Bertram Grassby as Chester Dowling
- Tom Wilson as 'Bull' Thompson
- Edward Peil Sr. as Mary's Attorney
- Charles Edler as Martin
- Wanda Hawley as Grace Martin
- Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. O'Toole
- Fanny Midgley as Mary's Mother
- Frankie Lee as Frankie Garvin
Crew
- Richard Stanton · Director
- Mary Murillo · Writer
- Richard Stanton · Writer
- Edward Sedgwick · Writer
- Devereaux Jennings · Cinematographer