One of the first exploitation films, director George Loane Tucker's Traffic In Souls caused a sensation upon its release in 1913. Lavishly produced for a then unheard of $25,000, some of the posters boasted "6 reels, 700 scenes, 600 players!" Shot in and around Manhattan, the interiors and location photography provide a fascinating look at turn-of-the-century New York, while the gangsters employ the latest technology including Dictaphones and a telegraph-pen.