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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Dorothy Davenport	...	Ethel MacFarland (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
	James Kirkwood	...	Alan MacFarland
	Bessie Love	...	Mary Finnegan
	George Hackathorne	...	Jimmy Brown
	Claire McDowell	...	Mrs. Brown
	Robert McKim	...	Dr. Hillman
	Harry Northrup	...	Steve Stone
	Victory Bateman	...	Mother Finnegan
	Eric Mayne	...	Dr. Blake
	Otto Hoffman	...	Harris
	Philip Sleeman	...	Dunn
	George Clark	...	The Baby
	Lucille Ricksen	...	Ginger
	George E. Cryer	...	Himself - Mayor of Los Angeles
	R.B. von Kleinsmid	...	Himself - President - University of Southern California

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Storyline

Ethel McFarland presents her attorney husband, Alan, with the case of a dope addict named Jimmy Brown. With the help of Alan's impassioned defense, Jimmy gets aquitted. Alan feels the pressures of his job and is introduced to a doctor at his club. When he becomes addicted, he is blackmailed by his peddlers to represent their friends in court. Jimmy, now off the smack and a taxi driver, hears of these goings on. When he discovers that his passenger is the leader of the dope ring, he resolvs to aide the war on narcotics by crashing the vehicle head-on into an oncoming train, killing them both. Alan gets treated for his addiction and begins to fight the pushers in court, all the while, pushing for stronger laws against addictive substances. At the film's close, the film's producer, Dorothy Davenport, who also plays Ethel, and who's husband Wallace Reid died of a drug overdose, adresses the audience, imploring them to support her in her crusade to wipe out the narcotic menace in the ... Written by Kieran Kenney

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Crime | Thriller | Drama

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 June 1923 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Kokain See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Los Angeles Bureau of Drug Addiction, Thomas H. Ince Corporation See more »

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Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

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When this silent film opened in New York at the Lyric Theatre on 42nd Street, the musical arrangement was by J. Frank Cork (who conducted the orchestra), and Eleanor Gates sang "Gentle Maiden" during the film. See more »