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The Serpent's Tooth (1917 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Serpent's Tooth' is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Gail Kane from the stage and released through the Mutual Film company. It is a lost film.'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:191120' by The American Film Institute, c.1988
Cast
* Gail Kane as Faith Channing
* William Conklin as James Winthrop
* Edward Peil, Sr. as Jack Stilling
* Jane Pascal as Hortense Filliard
* Frederick Vroom as Matthew Addison-Brown
* Mary Wise as Mrs. Addison-Brown (Mary Lee Wise)
* Charles P. Kellogg as Carrington
* Gayne Whitman as Sid Lennox (* as Al Vosburgh)
Reception
Like many American films of the time, 'The Serpent's Tooth' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors, because of the plot involving drug use, gave the film an "adults only" permit and required cuts in Reel 1 of the first view of a woman in a low cut gown and two closer views of the same; in Reel 3 of the intertitle "You make her use it. Its grounds for divorce in this state." and the shot of man putting drug into the woman's medicine; in Reel 4 of the intertitle "You say you couldn't get any more. I have been more successful."; and in Reel 5 of the intertitles "Your damned lover is a liar." and "It's the drug that loves you - the drug I've fed her night and day," and the scene of the choking of the wife and knocking her down.
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