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Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
Written by | Eliot Stannard |
Based on | Justice by John Galsworthy |
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Distributed by | Ideal Film Company |
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Running time | 6 reels |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Justice is a 1917 British silent crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gerald du Maurier, Hilda Moore, and Lilian Braithwaite.[1] It was based on the 1910 play Justice by John Galsworthy. It is not known whether the film currently survives,[2] which suggests that it is a lost film.
Like many American films of the time, the British film Justice was subject to cuts and restrictions by American city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 2, the man stealing from a safe and, in Reel 3, the entire scene of the prisoner attacking guard, taking keys, changing clothes, etc., to where the prisoner leaves the cell.[3]