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The Unwritten Law (1907 film)

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444: 22: 222:. Produced and released concurrently with Thaw's trial, its depiction of a recent sexual scandal led to widespread controversy, becoming "the first film in the United States to be widely construed as 'scandalous 369: 309: 234:
The plot closely follows Nesbit's own testimony regarding White's seduction and assault, followed by a scene of the killing and Thaw's imprisonment in New York prison
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Monitoring the movies : the fight over film censorship in early twentieth-century urban America
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The film was denounced in the motion picture press and banned in several cities.
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Policing cinema : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America
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Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century America
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Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth Century America
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The Unwritten Law: A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Tragedy
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The Unwritten Law: A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Case
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