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Traffic in Souls is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Loane Tucker released in USA on 24 november 1913 with Ethel Grandin
Traffic in Souls (1913)
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Add to a movie listTraffic in Souls (also released as While New York Sleeps) is a 1913 American silent crime drama film focusing on forced prostitution (white slavery) in the United States. Directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner and Matt Moore, Traffic in Souls is an early example of the narrative style in American films. The film consists of six reels which was longer than most American film of the era.
A copy of Traffic in Souls is preserved at the Library of Congress and the Film Preservation Associates. In 2006, the film was added to the National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress because it "presaged the Hollywood narrative film" and drew attention through its riveting depiction of the methods used to entrap young women into prostitution.
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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.Actors
Ethel Grandin
(Lorna Barton)
Matt Moore
(Officer Larry Burke)
Jane Gail
(Mary Barton)
William Welsh
(William Trubus)
Howard Crampton
(The go-between)
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