Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror (1914)

Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror

1914 | USA

Originální název: Cocaine Traffic; Or, The Drug Terror
Žánr: Drama
Režie: Harry Myers
Hrají: Joseph Kaufman, Rosemary Theby , další...

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.