The Seven Pearls is a 1917 American silent action film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. Fragments are held by the Library of Congress.
Cast Mollie King as Ilma Bay Creighton Hale as Harry Drake Léon Bary as Perry Mason John J. Dunn as Grady Henry G. Sell as Handsome Jack
Chapter titles The Sultan's Necklace The Bowstring The Air Peril Amid the Clouds Between Fire and Water The Abandoned Mine The False Pearl The Man Trap The Message on the Wire The Hold-Up Gems of Jeopardy Buried Alive Over the Falls The Tower of Death The Seventh Pearl
Reception Like many American films of the time, The Seven Pearls was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Chapter 5, a cut of the scenes where an airman threw two bombs at an automobile and of the shooting of a man in a ship; (cuts in Chapter 5) in Chapter 7, of the binding of the woman and man, (cuts in Chapter 7) in Chapter 10, the intertitle "Have $100,000 in the safe, etc.", setting fire to the waste paper basket, the holdup of the bank watchman, and all scenes showing detail of the attempt of the bank robbery; (cuts in Chapter 10) in Chapter 11, Reel 1, three scenes of the holdup of the young woman and her abduction, the pointing at woman's side as officer stops the machine, five holdup scenes in room, the holdup of the woman in the house, the binding of the woman, and Reel 2, the entire incident of the acid and candle burning nearby and the intertitle "It will not kill you – it will only spoil your beauty"; (cuts in Chapter 11) and, in Chapter 13, putting the bound and gagged young woman into a piano box; (cuts in Chapters 13 and 15) in Chapter 14, two scenes of choking young woman, blow to man's head, throwing man in front of train; (cuts in Chapter 14) in Chapter 15, the detailed method of a man fixing a gas bomb, drilling a safety deposit box, stealing pearls, and choking the young woman.
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