The Fringe of Society

The Fringe of Society

🎞️ Movie 70 min --
1917

Publisher of the influential newspaper, The Record , Martin Drake, supports Prohibition because of his own secret battle with alcohol. Ned Medford, a powerful politician who represents the liquor interests, is infatuated with Martin's wife Esther, and when Martin enters the room as Medford is seizing her in his arms, he mistakenly believes that she is being unfaithful to him and goes on a drinking spree. One of Medford's henchmen kidnaps Martin to prevent him from publishing information that would implicate Medford in a plot to destroy the publisher. Reporter Tip O'Neill rescues Martin and writes up the story, while Martin goes to Medford's apartment, just as Medford is attacking Esther, who had gone there to plead her husband's case. After a vicious fight in which Medford is defeated, Esther explains everything to her husband, and his shadows of doubt are banished.

Cast

Ruth Roland
Ruth Roland
Esther Drake
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Milton Sills
Martin Drake
Leah Baird
Leah Baird
Myra Strang
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J. Herbert Frank
Ned Medford
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George Larkin
Tip O'Neill
Tammany Young
Tammany Young
Scrap Blinn
Ollie Kirby
Ollie Kirby
Min Manning
Jules Cowles
Jules Cowles
Nigger Mike
Ricardo Cortez
Ricardo Cortez
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H.J. Butler
Cinematographer
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George K. Hollister
Cinematographer
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Edward Wynard
Cinematographer