''Hands Up'' is a
lost 1918 American
adventure
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film serial
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...
directed by
Louis J. Gasnier
Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously ...
and
James W. Horne. The serial was
Ruth Roland
Ruth Roland (August 26, 1892 – September 22, 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer.
Early life and career
Roland was born in San Francisco, California to Elizabeth Lillian Hauser and Jack Roland. Her father managed a t ...
's breakthrough role.
Plot
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an
Inca
The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...
tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
Cast
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Ruth Roland
Ruth Roland (August 26, 1892 – September 22, 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer.
Early life and career
Roland was born in San Francisco, California to Elizabeth Lillian Hauser and Jack Roland. Her father managed a t ...
as Echo Delane.
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George Larkin
George Larkin (November 11, 1887 – March 27, 1946) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1910 and 1931. He was born and died in New York, New York. He was married to actress Ollie Kirkby.
...
as Hands Up
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George Chesebro
George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
* '' M ...
as Hands Up
* Easter Walters as Judith Strange
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William A. Carroll as Sam Killman / Omar the High Priest
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George Gebhardt
George Gebhardt (September 21, 1879 – May 2, 1919) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edendale, Los Angeles from tuberculosis.
Selecte ...
as The Grand Envoy
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W. E. Lawrence as Prince Pampas (as William E. Lawrence)
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the natio ...
*
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; 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
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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
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{{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