ALL! ALL! GRAPHICALLY SHOWN ALL! ALL in WILLIAM FOX'S Stupendous 1918 Cinemelodrama "Cheating the Public" THE GREATEST MELODRAMA EVER FILMED
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.
Richard Stanton
Director, Writer
Edward Sedgwick
Writer

Enid Markey
Mary Garvin

Ralph Lewis
John Dowling

Wanda Hawley
Grace Martin

Bertram Grassby
Chester Dowling

Tom Wilson
'Bull' Thompson

Edward Peil Sr.
Mary's Attorney

Carrie Clark Ward
Mrs. O'Toole

Fanny Midgley
Mary's Mother

Frankie Lee
Frankie Garvin
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