The Serpent's Tooth (film)

The Serpent's Tooth
The Serpent's Tooth
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Directed by	Rollin S. Sturgeon
Written by	Forrest Halsey (story); Doris Schroeder (scenario)
Starring	Gail Kane
Cinematography	John Seitz
Production; company	American Film Company
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release date	May 28, 1917;
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Serpent's Tooth is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Gail Kane from the stage and released through the Mutual Film company. It is a lost film.^[1]

Cast

Gail Kane as Faith Channing
William Conklin as James Winthrop
Edward Peil, Sr. as Jack Stilling
Jane Pascal as Hortense Filliard
Frederick Vroom as Matthew Addison-Brown
Mary Wise as Mrs. Addison-Brown (Mary Lee Wise)
Charles P. Kellogg as Carrington
Gayne Whitman as Sid Lennox (* as Al Vosburgh)

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Serpent's Tooth was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors, because of the plot involving drug use, gave the film an "adults only" permit and required cuts in Reel 1 of the first view of a woman in a low cut gown and two closer views of the same; in Reel 3 of the intertitle "You make her use it. Its grounds for divorce in this state." and the shot of man putting drug into the woman's medicine; in Reel 4 of the intertitle "You say you couldn't get any more. I have been more successful."; and in Reel 5 of the intertitles "Your damned lover is a liar." and "It's the drug that loves you - the drug I've fed her night and day," and the scene of the choking of the wife and knocking her down.^[2]

References

^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1911–20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. 14 July 1917. Retrieved 2014-11-08.

External links

The Serpent's Tooth at IMDb
The Serpent's Tooth at AllMovie
The Serpent's Tooth at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1911–20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988

[2] "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. 14 July 1917. Retrieved 2014-11-08.

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