1917 Movies

16 episode adventure serial. 1. The Grey Seal 2. The Stolen Rubies 3. The Counterfeit Five 4. The Metzer Murder Mystery 5. A Fight for Honor 6. Below...

A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.

Luke operates a sanatarium, which he has naturally staffed with a bevy of attractive nurses.

The Land of Long Shadows is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. It ma...

An early Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

Jerry from the top of a tree is making love to his girl at the window opposite. A policeman interferes and is put to sleep when Jerry falls on him. Je...

The secret from the title is the lost recipe for shiny Delft pottery, that Jan Vogel is desperately trying to rediscover. For his attempts he needs pl...

The Luck That Jealousy Brought is a 1917 Western

A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans r...

Western starring William F. Cody. A re-cut version of the 1914 film The Indian Wars. Both versions are lost.

Alice, a little newsgirl known as "Sticks", spends her time fighting for her territory against a lot of tough kids.

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Si...

Episode 12 of the "Purple Mask" serials. Directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford.

A physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The film depicts her desce...

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, s...

William Bryant, a hopeless invalid due to a profligate life and made vicious by the fact, lives to make life a misery for his wife Margaret. One eveni...

After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal cou...