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The Seven Pearls
The Seven Pearls
	Film poster
Directed by	Louis J. Gasnier; Donald MacKenzie
Starring	Mollie King; Creighton Hale
Production; company	Astra Films
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	September 16, 1917;
Running time	15 episodes (2 reels each)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Seven Pearls is a 1917 American silent action film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. Fragments are held by the Library of Congress.^[1]

Cast

Mollie King as Ilma Bay
Creighton Hale as Harry Drake
Léon Bary as Perry Mason
John J. Dunn as Grady
Henry G. Sell as Handsome Jack

Chapter titles

The Sultan's Necklace
The Bowstring
The Air Peril
Amid the Clouds
Between Fire and Water
The Abandoned Mine
The False Pearl
The Man Trap
The Message on the Wire
The Hold-Up
Gems of Jeopardy
Buried Alive
Over the Falls
The Tower of Death
The Seventh Pearl

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Seven Pearls was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Chapter 5, a cut of the scenes where an airman threw two bombs at an automobile and of the shooting of a man in a ship;^[2] in Chapter 7, of the binding of the woman and man,^[3] in Chapter 10, the intertitle "Have $100,000 in the safe, etc.", setting fire to the waste paper basket, the holdup of the bank watchman, and all scenes showing detail of the attempt of the bank robbery;^[4] in Chapter 11, Reel 1, three scenes of the holdup of the young woman and her abduction, the pointing at woman's side as officer stops the machine, five holdup scenes in room, the holdup of the woman in the house, the binding of the woman, and Reel 2, the entire incident of the acid and candle burning nearby and the intertitle "It will not kill you – it will only spoil your beauty";^[5] and, in Chapter 13, putting the bound and gagged young woman into a piano box;^[6] in Chapter 14, two scenes of choking young woman, blow to man's head, throwing man in front of train;^[7] in Chapter 15, the detailed method of a man fixing a gas bomb, drilling a safety deposit box, stealing pearls, and choking the young woman.^[6]

References

^ "The Seven Pearls". The Progressive Silent Film List. silentera.com. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (17). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. October 20, 1917. (cuts in Chapter 5)
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (20): 33. November 10, 1917. (cuts in Chapter 7)
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (25): 31. December 15, 1917. (cuts in Chapter 10)
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (1): 31. December 29, 1917. (cuts in Chapter 11)
^ ^a ^b "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (2): 31. January 5, 1918. (cuts in Chapters 13 and 15)
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (3): 31. January 12, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 14)