The Triumph of the Weak (1918)
Overview
The opening picture finds Edith in prison where she has been for the last three years. She is a widow and her baby has been placed in an institution. She is paroled, finds her child and steals him from the asylum. After wandering around she finally obtains a position in a department store, where Jim Roberts, superintendent, falls in love with her. They are married, but she fails to tell him of her past. Mabel, also freed from prison, demands that Edith join with her and her side partner in a crime, under threat of exposing her past to Jim.
Cast
Alice Joyce
Edith Merrill
Walter McGrail
Jim Roberts
Templar Saxe
Robert Jordan
Eulalie Jensen
Diamond Mabel
Adele DeGarde
Lizee
Bernard Siegel
Brown
