On the Level

On the Level

1917
50m
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""This Little Pig Stayed Home""

Overview

Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses his saloon as a front, coerces Merlin though beatings to become the dancer Mexicali Mae. She meets and falls in love with morphine addict Joe Blanchard but Pete frames Joe for a murder that he committed, forcing Mae to hide Joe in a homestead in the hills. After many struggles, Joe is cured of his addiction and proposes to Mae. She accepts, but when his mother and fiancée Eleanor arrive, they offer her money to leave, Mae refuses the money but becomes convinced that she is not good enough for Joe and writes to him that she is returning to the saloon. Joe learning of his mother’s plot arrives at the saloon and in the resultant fight Pete is killed. Mae and Joe are reconciled.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
No Language

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Quick Facts

Release Date September 10, 1917
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0008384

Cast

Fannie Ward
Fannie Ward

Merlin Warner, aka Mexicali May

Jack Dean
Jack Dean

Pete Sontag

Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford

Joe Blanchard

Lottie Pickford
Lottie Pickford

Eleanore Duke

James Cruze
James Cruze

Ozmun

James Pier Mason
James Pier Mason

Pike

James Neill
James Neill

Warner, Mae's Father

Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman

Joe Blanchard's Mother

Jane Wolfe
Jane Wolfe

Sontag's Wife

Henry Woodward
Henry Woodward

Judge Wilton

Key Crew

George Melford
Director