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Cheating the Public
“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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Cheating the Public (1918) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Cheating the Public (1918) — a movie tagged as Drama with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: 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 stru… Our models also surface themes such as ai, family, and revenge from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~70 min).
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Synopsis
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.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1918-01-20
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- TMDB rating
- 0.0
- TMDB ID
- 1470420
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What is Cheating the Public about?
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 lab... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for Cheating the Public?
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How long is the movie Cheating the Public?
The official runtime for Cheating the Public is approximately 70 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
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
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Charles Edler
Martin
- B
Barbara Conley
Bobby
- B
Baby Cohen
The Baby Brother
- J
James Titus
The Judge
- H
Henry Peal
The District Attorney
- J
Joseph Hartley
The Twelfth Juror
- J
James Morgan
Warden
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Arthur Glynn
The Governor
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James P. McNeill
Dowling's Butler
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