Who's Your Neighbor? (1917)

Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.

Date of release
1917-06-15
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Drama
Director
S. Rankin Drew

Casting

Interesting facts

Who's Your Neighbor? is a 1917 silent American propaganda and drama film directed by S. Rankin Drew. The film's plot focuses around reformers who pass a law to force prostitutes, including Hattie Fenshaw, out of the red light district. Fenshaw becomes Bryant Harding's mistress and lives in an apartment next door to a reformer, and continues to ply her trade. After Fenshaw becomes familiar with Harding, his son, daughter and the daughter's fiancé, the climax of the film occurs as the cast assembles at Fenshaw's apartment. Harding returns and a fight breaks out that results in the reformers' arrival and concludes with the presumption that Fenshaw returns to a place of "legalized vice".

Production

Willard Mack had registered and copyrighted "Who's Your Neighbor?" on March 9, 1917. Speculation by Motography states that Mack's "contribution to the screen drama was probably prompted by the distressing Ruth Cruger mystery, which was so cleverly solved by Mrs.

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