The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
A doctor's wife is the head of a bureau that publishes and hands out literature on birth control. However, the police stop it and forbid her to speak in meetings about the secret that was open to the rich but closed to the poor. She is arrested for holding a meeting anyway, is arrested, but convinces her husband and a judge of the soundness of her beliefs.
Direction Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber
Cast Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber · Priscilla Dean · Wedgwood Nowell · Evelyn Selbie · Harry De More · Josephine Myers
Screenplay Phillips Smalley · Lois Weber
Cinematography Allen G. Siegler
Original title The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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