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For the Defense

0.0 50 mins Drama   1916
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company  
Director(s): Frank Reicher

Release Date: 12 Sun, Mar 1916

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 joins the girl but is caught. She helps police expose the real killer by going undercover as another maid.

Casts of For the Defense

Fannie Ward

as Fidele Roget

Jack Dean

as Jim Webster

Camille Astor

as Ninette

James Neill

as Mr. Webster

Gertrude Kellar

as Mrs. Webster

Paul Byron

as Richard Madison

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