''The Triumph of the Weak'' is a

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

Vitagraph American drama film that was directed by Tom Terriss, written by Garfield Thompson based upon a play by Edith Ellis and Forrest Halsey, and starring Alice Joyce. It is the story of a woman who steals to provide food for her child and the consequence which follow her act, the narrow escapes she has of the many pitfalls, in her efforts to live in the straight and narrow path. This film appears to be lost.''The Triumph of the Weak'' at The Alice Joyce Website, by Greta De Groat
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Plot

Frank Merrill, a Great Lakes pilot, loses his life in a storm and his wife, Edith, to support her child leaves for the city where she steals and is imprisoned. Three years later, upon her release, she takes her child from the state orphanage and goes to another city where she secures employment in a department store. She marries the superintendent, Jim Roberts. Mabel, who served time with Edith, is freed and arranges with Mickey Bill to enlist the aid of Edith in a robbery under threat of exposure. The burglary is committed, and, when Mabel is trapped, Edith, fearing a revelation of her past, says that she is responsible. In a trap laid by Detective Jordan to get Mabel the truth comes out and Edith's past is laid bare to her husband. He forgives her and the thieves are rounded up.

Cast

* Alice Joyce as Edith Merrill * Walter McGrail as Jim Roberts * Templar Saxe as Robert Jordan *

Eulalie Jensen Eulalie Jensen (December 24, 1884 – October 7, 1952) was an American actress on the New York stage and in silent films. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding t ...

as Diamond Mabel * Adele DeGarde as Lizee * William Carr as Teddy (credited as Billy Carr) * Bernard Siegel as Brown

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* 1918 films American black-and-white films American silent feature films 1918 drama films Vitagraph Studios films Silent American drama films Lost American films 1918 lost films Lost drama films Films directed by Tom Terriss 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub