Americans in this  film. However, scenes in which Ernest Anderson (I) (qv)s  character was treated in a friendly fashion were cut for showings in  the South to avoid offending those viewers. The film was initially  disapproved for export by the Office of Censorship in Washington,  D.C., because it suggests that the Negros testimony would be  totally disregarded by the jury when it was disputed by a white  person, which, in the South at the time and for long afterwards, was  true.