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inside a brothel, made it a resounding success. It was stressed at the time that the longer visual form did not inhibit comprehension, but aided it instead. A reviewer marveled that it was "The first artistic film. As a guide, the printed programme is unnecessary, the rapidly shifting but carefully linked episodes speak for themselves".
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was his third film and it was a remake a film with the same title released in the Spring of 1910 by
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Fight". Georg travels to London and hires a detective. Together they track down the brothel where Anna is kept and arrange her evasion. Anna crawls out a window and they escape in horse-carriage, but after a wind-blowing car chase, they are overpowered by the slaveholders who get Anna back. She is
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