Visually, they are harshly backlit and project elongated shadows ahead of them as they walk through the darkened streets with billyclubs, wearing white trousers and white suspenders to match, black combat boots and derbies.Due to this serial""s success, Pearl White appeared in an even more successful sequel,The Exploits of Elaine (1914), featuring a mystery villain named the "Clutching Hand," and hen in two further sequels: the 10-episode (each 2 reels)The New Exploits of Elaine (1915)(with a new villain named Wu Fang) and the 12-episode (each 2 reels)The Romance of Elaine (1915)(a lost film), battling master criminal Doctor X.Beryl: You mean likeme, huh? Listen, bub, I connect with ya - ya ain""t over my head.Adam promises Warren to "get a conviction on an attempted murder, or first-degree assault..."In one of the film""s most famous and economical sequences, an almost five minute shot without a single camera movement or cut, Amanda (at the left) interviews deceived, dumb blonde Doris (at center right) in the women""s prison""s detention area, while a white-uniformed correction officer sits in the mid-background looking through an open door.Robert Donat won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1939 (his sole Oscar win), becoming one of the few non-Gone With the Windvictors - he defeated some of the most famous nominated performances in film history - Clark Gable""s performance as Rhett Butler, James Stewart as Jefferson Smith inMr.