The Knife
1918, English. Directed by Robert G. Vignola.
Presents a startling but effeacious remedy for social ills.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
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- Released
- 1 February 1918
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Charles Maigne
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The Knife runs 75 minutes (1h 15m).
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The Knife is rated NR in India. Check the rating guidance before watching with young children.
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The Knife isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 February 1918. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Knife?
The Knife (1918) was directed by Robert G. Vignola and stars Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Crauford Kent.