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Queen X
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Wikipedia article
'Queen X' is a 1917 American silent crime-drama film directed by John B. O'Brien and produced and released through the Mutual Film Company. Stage personality Edna Goodrich, a former wife of Nat C. Goodwin, is the star.
The film survives in the Library of Congress collection.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 147 c. 1978, The American Film Institute
Cast
*Edna Goodrich - Janice Waltham, Queen X
*Hugh Thompson - George Evans
*Lucille Taft - Miriam Evans
*Dora Mills Adams - Mrs. Evans
*William Wolcott - Arnold Somers
*Jack Hopkins - Nippo
*P. Tamato - Togo
Reception
Like many American films of the time, 'Queen X' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two opium den scenes, the preparing of an opium pipe, and two scenes of a party slumming in the opium den.
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