Cheating the PublicMovie
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.
About Cheating the Public
Cheating the Public is a 1918 drama movie directed by Richard Stanton.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 10m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Enid Markey, Ralph Lewis, Wanda Hawley, Bertram Grassby. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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