A Little Girl in a Big City (1925)

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Country: USA
Genres: N/A
Release: 1925-07-20
Director: Burton L. King
Writers: Randolph Bartlett , James Kyrle MacCurdy , Victoria Moore
Language: None | English
Stars: Gladys Walton , Niles Welch , Mary Thurman , J. Barney Sherry , Coit Albertson , Helen Shipman , Sally Crute , Nellie Savage
Runtime: 60 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: A Little Girl in a Big City (United States of America) , Vítima da Vaidade (Brazil) , A Little Girl in a Big City
Plot: Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party, seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently, compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating. Threatened with blackmail, Mrs. Young turns in desperation to Jack for help. Jack and Mary attempt to trap Cortelyou in a net of his own making, but the blackmailer is too smart, outwitting Jack and abducting Mary. Cortelyou also kidnaps Mrs. Young, keeping her and Mary in a deserted house. Jack learns of their whereabouts and arrives with the police. Cortelyou is arrested, Mrs. Young is saved from the consequences of scandal, and Jack proposes to Mary.
IMDB:tt0016031