The lost 400-minute socialist manifesto that Hollywood literally buried.
20 two reels episodic dramatic serial now lost. (1) Liquor and the Law (1915); (2) The Tenement House Evil (1915); (3) The Traction Grab (1915); (4) The Power of the People (1916); (5) Grinding Life Down (1916); (6) The Railroad Monopoly (1916); (7) America Saved from War (1916); (8) Old King Coal (1916); (9) The Insurance Swindlers (1916); (10) The Harbor Transportation Trust (1916); (11) The Illegal Bucket Shops (1916); (12) The Milk Battle (1916); (13) The Powder Trust and the War (1916); (14) The Iron Ring (1916); (15) The Patent Medicine Danger (1916); (16) The Pirates of Finance (1916); (17) Queen of the Prophets (1916); (18) The Hidden City of Crime (1916); (19) The Photo Badger Game (1916); and (20) The Final Conquest (1916).
Production
Twenty episodes of coordinated anti-trust agitation.
Writing
Episode titles that read like 1916 progressive bumper stickers.
Director
Richard Stanton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This serial arrived during peak Progressive Era muckraking, when films functioned as direct political organizing tools before studios sanitized their content.
Harry Carey—future Western legend—appears in episodes 4-12, making this potentially his earliest surviving work if fragments emerge.
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