Blue Jeans (1917 film)

Blue Jeans is a 1917 American silent drama film, based on the 1890 melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City to great popularity. The sensation of the play was a dramatic scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, later imitated to the point of clich.

Like many American films of the time, Blue Jeans was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of the intertitle You have transgressed the moral law etc., the starting of the saw and the laying of the man on the block before it, and three scenes of the man in front of the saw.

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