Traffic in Souls (1913)

Directors

George Loane Tucker

Cast

Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore, Walter Long, William Welsh, Millie Liston, Irene Wallace, William Cavanaugh, Howard Crampton, Arthur Hunter, William Burbidge, Laura Huntley, William Powers, Jack Poulson, Edward Boring

The story

The storyline concerns two young Swedish women immigrants who are approached by men soliciting for white slavery under the guise of a legitimate work offer. In the scenes filmed at Battery Park, after the women are transported there from Ellis Island, real immigrants can be seen in the background. The entire film takes place over the course of three days and consists of a prologue; the main narrative in which one of the sisters is kidnapped by a pimp and the other sister and her boyfriend rush to rescue her in time and the pimp is killed; and an epilogue in which the viewer finds out the consequences from a trashed news article.

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