02 October 2008

Before there was "Saw" there was "Blue Jeans"


This was the first play to include a scene in which a character in a mill is rescued in the nick of time from being killed by a buzz saw, a scene which was to become a cliché of American melodramatic theater.
The 1900 play became a movie in 1917.
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