Dope
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Herman Lieb
Laura Nelson Hall
Ernest Truex
William H. Tooker
Gaston Mervale
Christine Blessing
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Wealthy drug manufacturer John Rogers' son Slim unwittingly becomes addicted to drugs when he is injected with morphine following an alcoholic binge. Slim becomes an addict and impulsively kills his father. During his imprisonment, his sister, who is married to Rogers, Sr.'s partner Binkley, becomes addicted to cocaine. To finance her habit, she becomes a prostitute and leaves her husband, walking the streets with their young son. She is arrested for prostitution and exiled from New York City, but she returns to attend a cocaine party. Mrs. Binkley eventually finds her way to a retail drug store that caters to addicts and encounters her recently paroled brother, who has been shot by a gangland associate. They both die and when Binkley is summoned to the drug store by his son, he discovers that the druggist has been selling Binkley-Rogers products.
Director
Herman Lieb
Cast
Laura Nelson Hall
Ernest Truex
William H. Tooker
Gaston Mervale
Christine Blessing
Herman Lieb
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Notes
Herman Lieb copyrighted his version of this play on August 22, 1910 and played it as part of his vaudeville act for many years. The film was shot at the Thanhouser studios in New Rochelle, NY.
