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The Triumph of the Weak (1918)
50 min | Drama

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The Triumph of the Weak (1918)

50 min | Drama

The opening picture finds Edith (Alice Joyce) 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 ...See moreThe opening picture finds Edith (Alice Joyce) 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. Jordan, a friend of Jim's visits them. He is a detective, and recognizes Edith as a former thief. Further to involve her, Mable, hiding from the police, forces Edith to give her refuge in her home, where she immediately proceeds to steal everything in sight, money being her particular passion. Jordan tells Jim he is harboring a thief and he tells Edith she must leave, but Edith, still fearing Mabel, confesses to the theft of money and Mable is allowed to stay. The two men then plan to trap Mable by placing $400 in a desk. As Edith takes the money from the desk, lights are flashed on and she stands before the two men as the thief. The distracted girl now tells her husband of her first theft to save her baby and of her present attempt to keep her past from him. The men have a battle, the detective gets badly beaten up, but is moved by her great courage, gives her back to Jim and the child and through his efforts she obtains a free pardon. - Review from Variety, May 10, 1918. Written by Pamela Short See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Alice Joyce Edith Merrill Edith Merrill See fewer	Beau Geste (1926)
Walter McGrail Jim Roberts Jim Roberts See fewer	Special Agent K-7 (1936)
Templar Saxe Robert Jordan (as Templer Saxe) Robert Jordan (as Templer Saxe) See fewer	How Women Love (1922)
Eulalie Jensen Diamond Mabel Diamond Mabel See fewer	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923)
Adele DeGarde Lizee Lizee See fewer	Lights of New York (1916)
William Carr Teddy (as Billy Carr) Teddy (as Billy Carr) See fewer	Wedding Rings (1929)
Bernard Siegel Brown Brown See fewer	Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)