The Devil's Playground
Cast & Crew
Harry Mcrae Webster
Vera Michelena
Harry Springler
Lillian Cook
George S. Trimble
William H. Tooker
Film Details
Synopsis
A stenographer who is fond of dancing in a posh Broadway cabaret becomes involved with her wealthy employer. When he attacks her in a roadhouse, she escapes through a window, and soon after, he dies of a heart attack. Meanwhile, the wealthy man's son, who frequents the same cabaret, falls in love with a woman of the world. Bored with her older companion, the woman attaches herself to the boy until his money starts to run low. To hold her attentions, the boy attempts to rob a bank but is arrested and sent to prison for a year. Finally, the woman returns to her old paramour and the boy to his mother.
Director
Harry Mcrae Webster
Cast
Vera Michelena
Harry Springler
Lillian Cook
George S. Trimble
William H. Tooker
Robert Cummings
Crew
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The production and distribution history of this film is unclear. An early news item notes that it is a Monmouth Film Corp. production, but other sources call it a production of Fraternity Films, Inc. Director Harry McRae Webster was the president of Monmouth. Fraternity May have been the main state rights distributor of the film. The Devil's Playground first appears in release charts as a May 1917 state rights release in nine parts by Fraternity. It later appears as an October 1917 and January 1918 release by Fraternity, both in nine parts, although the film was reviewed in January 1918 as a seven reel state rights release by Werner and Abrams of a Fraternity film. A news item in April 1918 mentions that the film would soon be released. Ads in May 1918 and release charts list the film as a June 1918 state rights release of the Atlantic Distributing Corp.
