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The Triumph of the Weak

0.0 50 mins Drama   1918
Vitagraph Company of America  
Director(s): Tom Terriss

Release Date: 13 Mon, May 1918

The opening picture finds Edith 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.

Casts of The Triumph of the Weak

Alice Joyce

as Edith Merrill

Walter McGrail

as Jim Roberts

Templar Saxe

as Robert Jordan

Eulalie Jensen

as Diamond Mabel

Adele DeGarde

as Lizee

William Carr

as Teddy

Bernard Siegel

as Brown

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