Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror(1914)

🎬50 min
📅1914-02-24
🎭Drama

Overview

Andrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both.

Production

Lubin Manufacturing Company

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Cast

Joseph Kaufman
as Roger Hastings
Rosemary Theby
as May
Harry Myers
as
Edwin DeWolf
as