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The Spider's Web (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Spider's Web (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

David Lindon and Buck Whiting, college chums, have the big football game of the year for their school. There is a big party that evening and Lindon takes his first drink. By the time school has ended he has become quite a drinker. He takes...See moreDavid Lindon and Buck Whiting, college chums, have the big football game of the year for their school. There is a big party that evening and Lindon takes his first drink. By the time school has ended he has become quite a drinker. He takes a position in his father's steel mills and promptly wins the enmity of Dr. Forsyth, the company physician and confidante of the elder Lindon. Forsythe sees his chance of occupying the manager's chair vanishing with the entrance into the business of the college boy. One night he finds the young man greatly intoxicated and takes him to his home. Here he injects morphine and Lindon is in good shape to put through a large sale. As with drink he readily becomes a slave to the new habit. When he finds himself slipping, helped by the pleas of Vera, his sister, and of Catherine Whiting, his sweetheart, he pulls himself together and goes to a sanitarium. Returning cured, Forsyth has him beaten and carried senseless into a room where the old injections are renewed. He sinks rapidly now until disowned by his father. He disappears and becomes a peddler of "coke" in the underworld until arrested. Then he calls upon his old friend, Duck Whiting, and the latter has him released and sends him to the woods to make the fight again. He does, and shows his worthiness to marry the girl and take the management of the mills. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Bryant Washburn David Lindon Jr. David Lindon Jr. See fewer	Captain Midnight (1942)
Betty Burbridge Vera Lindon (as Elizabeth Burbridge) Vera Lindon (as Elizabeth Burbridge) See fewer	In the Clutches of the Gangsters (1914)
Jon Junior Buck Whiting (as John Junior) Buck Whiting (as John Junior) See fewer	The Phantom Buster (1927)
John Lorenz Dr. Forsyth Dr. Forsyth See fewer	The Man Trail (1915)
Gertrude Glover Catherine Whiting Catherine Whiting See fewer	The Chaperon (1916)
Grant Foreman David Lindon Sr. David Lindon Sr. See fewer	S.O.S. (1917)
Pat Calhoun Actor Actor See fewer	Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923)
John Cossar Actor Actor See fewer	My Lady of Whims (1925)
Florence Oberle Actress Actress See fewer	Skinner's Dress Suit (1917)