Nine-Tenths of the Law

This article is about the 1918 film. For the idiom, see Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Nine-Tenths of the Law
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Directed by	B. Reeves Eason
Written by	B. Reeves Eason
Starring	Mitchell Lewis
Production company	North Woods Producing Company / Balboa Amusement Producing Company
Distributed by	Atlantic Distributing Corporation
Release date	May 1918 (1918-05)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Nine-Tenths of the Law is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, Jules Leneau (Lewis) and his wife Jane (Maye), living in a cabin in the Northwoods, are inconsolable after the death of their infant son. Through the wicked scheme of Red Adair (Eason) and his partner, trappers who live below the Leneaus, a child from the city is kidnapped and brought to the woods. The child wanders away and falls into a bear trap set by Jules, who discovers him there. The child is adopted by Jules and his wife and, because of her joy, he does not try to discover where the child is from. Red Adair makes several attempts to recover the child, and as a result Jules learns where the child belongs, and resolves to give him up despite Jane's pleadings. She is about to cast herself from a cliff when the story is brought to a happy and unexpected ending.

Cast

• Mitchell Lewis as Jules Leneau
• Jimsy Maye as Jane Leneau
• B. Reeves Eason as 'Red' Adair (credited as Reeves Eason)
• B. Reeves Eason Jr. as Little Roughneck (credited as Breezy Reeves)
• Julius Frankenburg as Pappineau
• Molly Shafer as Nurse

External links

• Nine-Tenths of the Law at IMDb