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The Lion's Claws
The Lion's Claws
	Two page contemporary advertisement
Directed by	Harry Harvey; Jacques Jaccard
Written by	Jacques Jaccard; W. B. Pearson
Starring	Marie Walcamp; Ray Hanford
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
Release date	April 6, 1918;
Running time	18 episodes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Lion's Claws is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by Harry Harvey and Jacques Jaccard and starring Marie Walcamp and Ray Hanford. The serial, which had 18 chapters, is considered to be a lost film.^[1]

Cast

Marie Walcamp as Beth Johnson
Ray Hanford as Buck Masterson
Neal Hart as Capt. Harris
Frank Lanning as Musa
Thomas G. Lingham as Capt. Johnson
Alfred Allen as Col. Leighton
Gertrude Astor as Lady Mary Leighton
Edwin August as Roger Hammond
Rex De Rosselli as Rej Hari
Harry von Meter as Capt. Bogart
Tom London as Reglis (credited as Leonard Clapham)
Sam Polo as Uula
Nigel De Brulier
Charles Brinley
Sam Appel

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Lion's Claws was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Chapter 2, Reel 1, the shooting of a man in a house;^[2] in Chapter 4, Reel 2, shortened the scene of man choking a young woman and cut the closeup of her being choked;^[3] in Chapter 5, Reel 1, Arab choking young woman, shooting Arab and his falling, and, Reel 2, shooting Arab and his falling; in Chapter 6, Reel 1, two scenes of shooting black man and white man, closeup of King and soldier in knife duel on floor and scene on platform where knife descends, Reel 2, placing young woman on block and last two torture scenes were machine descends;^[4] in Chapter 7, Reel 1, closeup of strangling young woman, two close views of young woman chained to rack, two scenes of spikes descending, and, in Reel 2, closeup of knives suspended over men's heads;^[5] in Chapter 8, Reel 1, swords suspended over bound men, two scenes of attacks on natives inside house, reduce to half seven scenes of natives shooting at soldiers, Reel 2, two scenes of choking natives, all views of young woman where her figure is clearly shown through her draperies to include scene where she is shown in group in harem and five scenes of her struggling with natives, two fight scenes in which natives are beaten, and two choking scenes;^[6] in Chapter 9, Reel 1, flash scene of semi-nude young woman after she is pulled from tank, shooting man at bank, and shooting man and his falling;^[7] in Chapter 10, two closeups of binding young woman's hands and feet;^[8] in Chapter 11, Reel 1, shooting man and man falling from horse and, Reel 2, shooting man and man falling down cliff;,^[9] in Chapter 14, Reel 1, two scenes of muffling young woman, Reel 2, scene of man with spear in back, four scenes of binding man and young woman to posts and lighting fire under them, shooting native, and native with spear in back,^[10] and, in Chapter 15, Reel 1, two closeups of man's bloody face.^[11]