One Law for Both
One Law for Both is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson.
One Law for Both was director Ivan Abramsons most involved production to that point in terms of expense, length, and cast, featuring a wellknown cast of respected actors. The Moving Picture World found the finished product to be far too long with a very slow and somewhat tedious tempo, and with rapid unexplained jumping of scene between America and Russia. But the New York press gave it very favorable reviews.Like many American films of the time, One Law for Both was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors cut, starting with reel 3, several intertitles including I will free all of the prisoners for a price, I am to become the wife of the noblest man in Poland and I will not come to him degraded, The break of another day, I, a spy, a traitor? Rather did I betray my honor to set you free, and Elga forgive our accusation. You did not commit an act of shame, and the scene of a man drawing back portieres to a bedroom and the two following bedroom scenes in reelthe intertitle I must kill the man who robbed you of your honor and the shooting of Slezak and his falling in reelthe scene of a womans gown falling off of her shoulders and the intertitle I will expect you in the palace within an hour in reelthe vision scene of the bedroom in the governors palace and in reelintertitles I love my other papa better and Elgas was a sacrifice for others, two scenes of a man in the adventuress bedroom, and a vision of the shooting. ........
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