A 1916 silent film where a judge gets framed with FIVE TEENAGE GIRLS and a prostitute. Pre-Code Hollywood was WILD.
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, Mordant devises a scheme of his own and `frames' Evans with five teenage girls and a prostitute.
Direction
William C. deMille's early moral panic storytelling.
Acting
Marie Doro's 'The Kid' — pre-teen chaos agent energy.
Director
William C. deMille
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film predates the Hays Code by nearly two decades, when Hollywood could still get away with genuinely salacious premises before moral guardians clamped down.
William C. deMille was Cecil B. DeMille's older brother and arguably the less remembered one, though he directed over 30 films in the silent era.
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