The Knife
Movie| Title | The Knife |
| User score | 6 |
| Release date | Feb 1, 1918 |
| Genre | Drama, Thriller |
| Director | Robert G. Vignola |
| Production country | United States of America |
| Production companies | Select Pictures Corporation |
| Run time | 75 min. |
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.
