Traffic in Souls
(1913) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Seven? reels
Directed by George Loane Tucker
Cast: Jane Gail [Mary Barton], Ethel Grandin [Lorna Barton], William Turner [Isaac Barton], Matt Moore [Officer Larry Burke], William Welsh [William Trubus], Mrs. Hudson Lyston [Mrs. Trubus], Irene Wallace [Alice Trubus], William Cavanaugh [Bill Bradshaw], Howard Crampton [the go-between], Arthur Hunter [the procurer], William Burbidge [Mr. Smith], Laura Huntley [the emigrant girl], William Powers [the emigrant girl’s brother]
Independent Moving Pictures Company, Incorporated [IMP] production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Produced by George Loane Tucker. Scenario by Walter MacNamara and George Loane Tucker. / © 2 December 1913 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LU1767]. Premiered 24 November 1913 at Joe Weber’s Theatre. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in Universal studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Production cost: $5700.
Drama: Social.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive; and in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: White slavery - Death - Police: Policemen - Weapons: Guns
Listing updated: 24 June 2009.
References: Film viewing : Edmonds-BigU pp. 9, 34-36, 78, 79; Everson-American pp. 60, 62-63, 228, 302, 369; Hirschhorn-Universal pp. 12, 16; Mottram-Danish pp. 97, 98-99; Robinson-Palace pp. 121, 169; Shipman-Cinema p. 50; Slide-Aspects pp. viii, 32-33; Sloan-Loud pp. 82-84, 94, 98f, 113, 152; Tarbox-Lost pp. 130, 262; Thompson-Lost p. ? : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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