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Released: 1917-09-10
Studios: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company,


Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses his saloon as a front, coerces Merlin though beatings to become the dancer Mexicali Mae. She meets and falls in love with morphine addict Joe Blanchard but Pete frames Joe for a murder that he committed, forcing Mae to hide Joe in a homestead in the hills. After many struggles, Joe is cured of his addiction and proposes to Mae. She accepts, but when his mother and fiancée Eleanor arrive, they offer her money to leave, Mae refuses the money but becomes convinced that she is not good enough for Joe and writes to him that she is returning to the saloon. Joe learning of his mother’s plot arrives at the saloon and in the resultant fight Pete is killed. Mae and Joe are reconciled.

Director / Directors

Roy Marshall
Assistant Director


Cast

Fannie Ward
Character: Merlin Warner, aka Mexicali May
Jack Dean
Character: Pete Sontag
Harrison Ford
Character: Joe Blanchard

Lottie Pickford
Character: Eleanore Duke
James Cruze
Character: Ozmun
James Pier Mason
Character: Pike

James Neill
Character: Warner, Mae's Father
Edythe Chapman
Character: Joe Blanchard's Mother
Jane Wolfe
Character: Sontag's Wife

Henry Woodward
Character: Judge Wilton


Production and Crew

Marion Fairfax
Scenario Writer
Percy Hilburn
Director of Photography