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The Dupe (I) (1916)
Short | 30 min | Drama, Short

The Dupe (I) (1916)

Short | 30 min | Drama, Short

Herbert and his mother, poor but honest people, live in a cheap tenement section of the town. Herbert works in a factory and they are comparatively comfortable and happy. Things get hard, however, and the factory closes down. Herbert tries...See moreHerbert and his mother, poor but honest people, live in a cheap tenement section of the town. Herbert works in a factory and they are comparatively comfortable and happy. Things get hard, however, and the factory closes down. Herbert tries elsewhere for employment but fails to get work. The landlord has threatened to dispossess them. Desperate, Herbert goes that night to a tough saloon. A well-dressed stranger, supposedly wealthy, but who in reality is an opium smuggler, asks him to deliver a suitcase at a certain street and for the service hands him five dollars. Herbert, delighted at the chance to earn some money, accepts the suitcase and leaves. Meanwhile the address given him by the stranger has been raided for an opium den, the police are waiting and seize Herbert as an accomplice. Having opium in his possession, he is convicted at a speedy trial and sentenced to the penitentiary. The shock of his arrest and conviction kills the mother. Herbert swears revenge on the law. A year later, Herbert, released from prison, comes to the city and takes up his life in the slums of Chinatown. Jennie, a little girl of the city, clerks in one of the Chinese curio stores. Herbert meets her and admires her. Foo Wing, a wealthy Chinaman of the neighborhood, also admires her and arranges with Reno Kate, a procuress of the neighborhood, to get the girl. Foo Wing arranges with the owner of the curio store to fire Jennie. He does so and Reno Kate follows her to the employment office and offers her a position in her own house. Herbert misses the girl but cannot learn of her whereabouts. That night Herbert in escaping from a police raid overhears Jennie scream, as she fights Reno Kate to get free from her house. Herbert bursts into the room and rescues Jennie from Foo Wing and a couple of other Chinamen. In the melee, however, a Chinamen knifes him and he is taken to the hospital. He recovers slowly under Jennie's care. Through her good influence he is taken to the country home to recover. A few months later the gang send him on a big deal. He finds that by being a party to the gang's deal he will get back at the opium smuggler who convicted him in the first case. Revenge appeals to him. but his reformation is complete, and he declines to join the gang in the plot. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Herbert See fewer	The Flame Fighter (1925)
Agnes Vernon Jennie Jennie See fewer	Queen of the Turf (1921)
Helen Wright Reno Kate (as Miss Wright) Reno Kate (as Miss Wright) See fewer	A Stranger from Somewhere (1916)
Barney Furey Foo Wing Foo Wing See fewer	The Big Diamond Robbery (1929)
Jack P. Pierce Sing (as Jack Pierce) Sing (as Jack Pierce) See fewer	The Wolf Man (1941)