The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Blanche Sweet
as Mary Willard
Winter Hall
as Henry Willard
Roy Laidlaw
as Huntley Green
Mahlon Hamilton
as Harvey Judson
Russell Simpson
as Jim Willis
Boris Karloff
as Jules Borney
ObscurHollywood
Subtle, attractive leading actress Blanche Sweet, who entered films with D W Griffith at Biograph (1909), plays the owner of a railroad threatened by the sharp practices of a business rival whose takeover of her rail lines would harm the interests of her small shareholders. She has him kidnapped and...