Differences From The Original
- In the book, an "ethnic minority" character was Chinese circus acrobat Yu-Yu. The 1923 adaptation replaced him with a black guy Tom Jackson, a move very popular in early Soviet cinema to display Soviet internationalism (compare Circus or Flight to the Moon). The Elusive Avengers, filmed in Cold War era, by contrast, avoided references to United States, and replaced the obviously propagandistic black Tom with a more realistic gipsy Yashka.
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