For the Defense (1916)
50m
Running Time
March 12, 1916
Release Date
Plot.
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. The butler intervenes and a fight results in the death of the assailant. A French girl, escaping from a pimp who kidnapped her, witnesses the crime. The butler convinces his master he is the killer, and must flee. He s the girl but is caught. She helps police expose the real killer by going undercover as another maid.
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Release Date
March 12, 1916
Status
Released
Running Time
50m
Content Rating
NR
Genres
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new york
kidnapping
murder
white slavery
Wiki.
For the Defense is a surviving 1916 American drama silent film directed by Frank Reicher and written by Hector Turnbull and Margaret Turnbull. The film stars Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Paul Byron, Horace B. Carpenter, Camille Astor and James Neill. The film was released on March 12, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.