Cheating the Public
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.
Release date
20/01/1918
Votes
0
Popularity
1.1
Enid Markey
Mary Garvin
Ralph Lewis
John Dowling
Wanda Hawley
Grace Martin
Bertram Grassby
Chester Dowling
Tom Wilson
'Bull' Thompson
Edward Peil Sr.
Mary's Attorney
Carrie Clark Ward
Mrs. O'Toole
Fanny Midgley
Mary's Mother
Frankie Lee
Frankie Garvin
Charles Edler
Martin
Barbara Conley
Bobby
Baby Cohen
The Baby Brother
James Titus
The Judge
Henry Peal
The District Attorney
Joseph Hartley
The Twelfth Juror
James Morgan
Warden
Arthur Glynn
The Governor
James P. McNeill
Dowling's Butler
Arthur Shilling
Dowling's Secretary
Fritz von Hardenberg
Factory Inspector
Miles McCormack
Beverly Griffith
Original Soundtrack
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Her Great Chance
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Winning His Wife
The Judgment House
Two Minutes to Go
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Redhead
Not So Long Ago
A Question of Honor
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Lena Rivers
The Atom
The Lure of Jade
The Dividend
The Spider
The Silent Witness
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