''Hands Up'' is a

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1918 American adventure film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and

James W. Horne James Wesley Horne (December 14, 1881June 29, 1942) was an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. Silent era James Horne began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film f ...

. The serial was Ruth Roland's breakthrough role.

Plot

A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an

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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 *

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as Sam Killman / Omar the High Priest * George Gebhardt as The Grand Envoy *

W. E. Lawrence William Effingham Lawrence (August 22, 1896 – November 28, 1947) was an American actor of the silent era. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles, California. Known by the nickname "Babe", Lawrence appeared in 120 films ...

as Prince Pampas (as William E. Lawrence) *

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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

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required a cut in Chapter 1, Reel 3, of the slugging of a man; 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; 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; Chapter 6, Reel 1, binding an Indian woman to telegraph pole and the young woman sitting on a bar; 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; 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; 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

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hands Up! (Serial) 1918 films 1918 lost films 1918 adventure films American silent serial films American adventure films American black-and-white films Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier Films directed by James W. Horne Lost American films Pathé Exchange film serials Lost adventure films Silent adventure films 1910s American films