The Vicar of Wakefield
The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
Genre Romance
The Square Deceiver
A Fred J. Balshofer film directed by , released in 1917.
The Squaw Man’s Son
Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.
The Trail of the Shadow
Sylvia Mason, a mysterious girl, lives in a cabin by herself and sells her bead work to the visitors at a large hotel nearby. At the hotel, Sylvia meets Easterner Henry Hilliard, who falls in love with her, but she…
The Siren
After being unfaithful to “The Stranger”, who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as “The Siren”, leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget. When Burt Hall arrives in town to deliver…
The Seven Swans
Once upon a time there was a beautiful little Princess, Tweedledee, who lived with her father and seven brothers in ‘The Kingdom of the Seven Dials’. The Wicked Queen, the Witch of the Bouncing Ball, turns Tweedledee’s brothers into seven…
The Pride of the Clan
Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget’s burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance…
The Promise
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his carousing. So he heads out West, but he gets in a railroad accident…
The Price of Silence
U. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge Vernon, his closest friend, aids him in this struggle. Unexpected circumstances force Judge Vernon to borrow money from Henry McCarthy, one of…
The Neglected Wife
A 1917 movie serial
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