On the Level

Synopsis

Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses his saloon as a front, coerces Merlin though beatings to become the dancer Mexicali Mae. She meets and falls in love with morphine addict Joe Blanchard but Pete frames Joe for a murder that he committed, forcing Mae to hide Joe in a homestead in the hills. After many struggles, Joe is cured of his addiction and proposes to Mae. She accepts, but when his mother and fiancée Eleanor arrive, they offer her money to leave, Mae refuses the money but becomes convinced that she is not good enough for Joe and writes to him that she is returning to the saloon. Joe learning of his mother’s plot arrives at the saloon and in the resultant fight Pete is killed. Mae and Joe are reconciled.

Main Cast

Fannie Ward

Merlin Warner, aka Mexicali May

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Jack Dean

Pete Sontag

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Harrison Ford

Joe Blanchard

Age : N/A | Popularity : 21%

Lottie Pickford

Eleanore Duke

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

James Cruze

Ozmun

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

James Pier Mason

Pike

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

James Neill

Warner, Mae's Father

Age : 70 | Popularity : 22%

Edythe Chapman

Joe Blanchard's Mother

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	George Melford
	Assistant Director	Roy Marshall
Writing	Scenario Writer	Marion Fairfax
	Story	Charles Kenyon
Camera	Director of Photography	Percy Hilburn
Crew	Presenter	Jesse L. Lasky
Department	Role	Name

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