The Spider's Web (1916)
David Lindon and Buck Whiting, college chums, have the big football game of the year for their school. There is a big party that evening and Lindon takes his first drink. By the time school has ended he has become quite a drinker. He takes a position in his father's steel mills and promptly wins the enmity of Dr. Forsyth, the company physician and confidante of the elder Lindon. Forsythe sees his chance of occupying the manager's chair vanishing with the entrance into the business of the college boy. One night he finds the young man greatly intoxicated and takes him to his home. Here he injects morphine and Lindon is in good shape to put through a large sale. As with drink he readily becomes a slave to the new habit. When he finds himself slipping, helped by the pleas of Vera, his sister, and of Catherine Whiting, his sweetheart, he pulls himself together and goes to a sanitarium. Returning cured, Forsyth has him beaten and carried senseless into a room where the old injections are renewed. He sinks rapidly now until disowned by his father. He disappears and becomes a peddler of "coke" in the underworld until arrested. Then he calls upon his old friend, Duck Whiting, and the latter has him released and sends him to the woods to make the fight again. He does, and shows his worthiness to marry the girl and take the management of the mills.
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