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Hands Up (serial)
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Wikipedia article
'Hands Up' is a lost 1918 American adventure film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and James W. Horne. The serial was Ruth Roland's breakthrough role.
Plot
of Ruth Roland holding an axe
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
Cast
* Ruth Roland as Echo Delane.
* George Larkin as Hands Up
* George Chesebro as Hands Up
* Easter Walters as Judith Strange
* William A. Carroll as Sam Killman / Omar the High Priest
* George Gebhardt as The Grand Envoy
* W. E. Lawrence as Prince Pampas (as William E. Lawrence)
* Thomas Jefferson
* Monte Blue
Chapter titles
The serial consisted of fifteen episodes, released from August 18 to November 24, 1918:
# Bride of the Sun
# The Missing Prince
# The Phantom and the Girl
# The Phantom's Trail
# The Runaway Bride
# Flames of Vengeance
# Tossed Into the Torrent
# The Fatal Jewels
# A Leap Through Space
# The Sun Message
# Stranger from the Sea
# The Silver Book
# The Last Warning
# The Oracle's Decree
# The Celestial Messenger
Censorship
Like many American films of the time, the film serial 'Hands Up' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut in Chapter 1, Reel 3, of the slugging of a man; (cut in Chapter 1) in Chapter 2, Reel 4, slugging man; in Chapter 3, Reel 1, Indian slugging man, masked man shooting Indian at barred window, Reel 2, shooting scene in which man falls, taking belt from ground, near view of man aiming gun at horseman and his falling off horse; (cuts in Chapters 2 and 3) Chapter 5, Reel 1, the two intertitles "I won her fair. She belongs to me now" and "She's mine again", the stabbing of the man, two scenes of Indian bending young woman back on table, Reel 2, slugging the engineer; (cuts in Chapter 5) Chapter 6, Reel 1, binding an Indian woman to telegraph pole and the young woman sitting on a bar; (cuts in Chapter 6) Chapter 8, Reel 1, slugging the man in the cabin, Reel 2, stabbing the man, binding the young woman, two scenes of tying the woman to the horse, and two scenes of dragging the woman; (cuts in Chapter 8) Chapter 9, Reel 1, first hula dance scene, young woman sitting at bar, young woman at table with arm around Mexican man's neck, four saloon fight scenes, Reel 2, first and third scene of man choking woman in bedroom; Chapter 11, Reel 1, the shooting of the old man and, Reel 2, binding of the young woman and old man; Chapter 12, Reel 2, two scenes of shooting and men falling; (cuts in Chapters 9, 11, and 12) Chapter 13, Reel 1, the slugging of the guard at the door, and, Reel 2, the slugging of the man on the coach; and, Chapter 14, Reel 2, the shooting by Killman, the shooting of Killman, and the closeup of a choking scene. (cuts in Chapters 13 and 14)
References
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