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Wild and Woolly
Wild and Woolly is a 1917 American silent Western comedy film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse. The film was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_and_Woolly
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The Torture of Silence
The Torture of Silence (French: Mater dolorosa) is a 1917 French silent drama film directed by Abel Gance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_of_Silence
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The Tornado
The Tornado is a 1917 American short Western film directed by John Ford. It was Ford's debut film as a director. The film is considered to be lost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tornado
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Tom Sawyer (1917 film)
Tom Sawyer is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama/adventure film starring Jack Pickford, Robert Gordon, and Clara Horton; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Directed by William Desmond Taylor, the film was released by Paramount Pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_(1917_film)
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Thaïs (Italian film)
Thaïs, also known as Perfido incanto is a 1917 silent film directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia. The movie is the only surviving Italian futurist film and currently kept at the Cinémathèque Française. It is based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha%C3%AFs_(Italian_film)
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Teddy at the Throttle
Teddy at the Throttle (1917) is a silent film starring Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_at_the_Throttle
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The Sultan's Wife
The Sultan's Wife is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson. The film is also known under the title Caught in a Harem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sultan%27s_Wife
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Straight Shooting
Straight Shooting is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. Prints of this film survive in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Shooting
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Souls Triumphant
Souls Triumphant is a 1917 American drama film directed by John B. O'Brien and starring Lillian Gish. This is considered to be a lost film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souls_Triumphant
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Satan Triumphant
Satan Triumphant (Russian: Сатана ликующий, translit. Satana likuyushchiy) is a 1917 silent film in Russian directed by Yakov Protazanov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan_Triumphant
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The Rough House
The Rough House is a 1917 American short comedy film written and directed by and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The Rough House was Keaton's first film as a director.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rough_House
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A Romance of the Redwoods
A Romance of the Redwoods is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford. A print of the film survives in the film archive at George Eastman House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Romance_of_the_Redwoods
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A Reckless Romeo
A Reckless Romeo is a 1917 American short silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Reckless_Romeo
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917 film)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion. The film was made by the "Mary Pickford Company" and was an acclaimed box office hit. When the play premiered on Broadway in the 1910 theater season the part of Rebecca was played by Edith Taliaferro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_of_Sunnybrook_Farm_(1917_film)
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman is a 1917 American silent film starring John Barrymore and Evelyn Brent. The movie also co-stars Frank Morgan and Mike Donlin, and was directed by George Irving. The film has been released on dvd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_the_Amateur_Cracksman
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur. Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates. The Broadway play actually starred future screen actress Viola Dana. The film stars Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks (returning from the play) and Frank McGlynn, Sr..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Little_Rich_Girl
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917 film)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (German: Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) is a 1917 German silent fantasy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Bernd Aldor, Ernst Pittschau, and Ernst Ludwig. The film is based on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_(1917_film)
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One Law for Both
One Law for Both is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Law_for_Both
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Oh Doctor!
Oh Doctor! is a 1917 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Doctor!
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The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach (German: Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Ludwig Trautmann. The film was based on a novel by Emmi Elert. A young teacher marries a factory owner, who turns out to be extremely brutal. She eventually leaves him for a kinder, gentler man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Luise_Rohrbach
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The Man Without a Country (1917 film)
The Man Without a Country is a 1917 American silent film adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's short story The Man Without a Country. It was directed by Ernest C. Warde, and starred Florence La Badie, Holmes Herbert, and J. H. Gilmour, and released by Thanhouser Film Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Country_(1917_film)
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A Man There Was
A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen. At a cost of 60,000 SEK it was the by then most expensive Swedish film ever made, marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in more total quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_There_Was
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The Little Princess (1917 film)
The Little Princess is a 1917 American silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Princess_(1917_film)
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The Little American
The Little American is a 1917 American silent romantic war drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Mary Pickford (who also served as producer) as an American woman who is in love with both a German and a French soldier during World War I. A print of the film is housed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and has been released on DVD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_American
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The Labour Leader
The Labour Leader is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Fred Groves, Fay Compton and Owen Nares. The film was based on an original screenplay by Kenelm Foss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Labour_Leader
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A Kentucky Cinderella
A Kentucky Cinderella is a 1917 silent film adapted from an 1898 short story by Francis Hopkinson Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kentucky_Cinderella
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The Immigrant (1917 film)
The Immigrant (also called Broke) is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short. The film stars the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immigrant_(1917_film)
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His Wedding Night
His Wedding Night is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle, Al St. John, and Buster Keaton, and directed by Arbuckle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Wedding_Night
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Her Right to Live
Her Right to Live is a 1917 dramatic silent film released by the Vitagraph Studios.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Right_to_Live
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Harrison and Barrison
Harrison and Barrison (Hungarian: Harrison és Barrison) is a 1917 Hungarian silent comedy film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Márton Rátkai, Dezsõ Gyárfás and Nusi Somogyi. Korda broke from his previous practice of adapting literary works, to direct an original screenplay. The film's style is a madcap one, which relied on the talents of its two stars Rátkai and Gyárfás who were popular comedians. It was Korda's most famous Hungarian film, better known than his literary adaptions. Korda himself considered the film his best work of the period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_and_Barrison
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The Gulf Between (1917 film)
The Gulf Between is a 1917 American comedy drama film that was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, the fourth feature-length color movie, and the first feature-length color movie produced in the United States. Today, the film is considered a lost film, with only very short fragments known to survive. These fragments are in the collections of the Margaret Herrick Library, George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Photography Deptment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_Between_(1917_film)
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Great Expectations (1917 film)
Great Expectations is a 1917 silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Jack Pickford stars as Pip and Louise Huff as Estella.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations_(1917_film)
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Golden Rule Kate
Golden Rule Kate is a 1917 American silent western drama film starring Louise Glaum, William Conklin, Jack Richardson, Mildred Harris, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Reginald Barker from a story written by Monte M. Katterjohn and produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule_Kate
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The Gay Lord Quex (film)
The Gay Lord Quex is a 1917 British silent comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster, Irene Vanbrugh and Lilian Braithwaite. It is based on the 1899 play The Gay Lord Quex by Arthur Wing Pinero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Lord_Quex_(film)
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Frank Hansen's Fortune
Frank Hansen's Fortune (German: Frank Hansens Glück) is a 1917 German silent western film directed by Viggo Larsen and starring Larsen, Lupu Pick and Kitty Dewall. Two diggers working in the Mexican diamond fields discover a very valuable diamond leading to a series of events that sees only one of them become rich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hansen%27s_Fortune
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Fear (1917 film)
Fear (German: Furcht) is a 1917 German silent horror film written and directed by Robert Wiene and starring Bruno Decarli, Conrad Veidt and Bernhard Goetzke. It is also the first known appearance of Conrad Veidt on screen, cast by producer Oskar Messter (famous for discovering actors who became big stars in the 1920s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_(1917_film)
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El Apóstol
El Apóstol (Spanish: "The Apostle") was a 1917 Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ap%C3%B3stol
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Easy Street (film)
Easy Street is a 1917 short action-comedy film by Charlie Chaplin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Street_(film)
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Dombey and Son (film)
Dombey and Son is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman McKinnel, Lilian Braithwaite and Hayford Hobbs. It is an adaptation of the novel Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dombey_and_Son_(film)
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The Cure (1917 film)
The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_(1917_film)
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Coney Island (1917 film)
Coney Island (also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 American silent short comedy film written and directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_(1917_film)
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The Colonel (1917 film)
The Colonel (Hungarian: Az Ezredes) is a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz. It featured Bela Lugosi in one of his earliest screen roles. It is based on a play by Ferenc Herczeg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel_(1917_film)
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Cleopatra (1917 film)
Cleopatra (1917) was an American silent historical drama film based on H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novel Cleopatra and the plays Cleopatre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou and Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. The film starred Theda Bara in the title role, Fritz Leiber, Sr. as Julius Caesar, and Thurston Hall played Mark Antony. The film is now considered lost, with only fragments surviving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1917_film)
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Camille (1917 film)
Camille is a 1917 American silent drama film based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and starring Theda Bara as Marguerite Gauthier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_(1917_film)
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The Butcher Boy (1917 film)
The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keaton's film debut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_Boy_(1917_film)
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Bucking Broadway
Bucking Broadway is a 1917 American western film directed by John Ford, probably his sixth feature film. Long thought to be lost, along with about 60 of Ford's 70 silent films, it was found in 2002 in the archives of the CNC (the French National Center for Cinematography). It was subsequently restored and digitized and is available on the website of Europa Film Tresures under the title A l'Assaut du boulevard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucking_Broadway
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Big Timber (film)
Big Timber is a 1917 American silent film Northwoods/drama produced by the Oliver Morosco Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William Desmond Taylor and starred Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Timber_(1917_film)
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Bestia (film)
Bestia is a 1917 Polish silent film starring Pola Negri. It was directed by Alexander Hertz and released by Warsaw-based film studio Sphinx Company. It was released in the U.S. under the title The Polish Dancer in 1921.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestia_(film)
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The Bad Boy (1917 film)
The Bad Boy is a 1917 American silent crime drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, and Mildred Harris. The film marks the debut of Colleen Moore, who plays a supporting role in the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Boy_(1917_film)
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All Aboard (film)
All Aboard is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Aboard_(film)
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The Adventurer (1917 film)
The Adventurer is an American short comedy film made in 1917 written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and is the last of the twelve films made under contract for the Mutual Film Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventurer_(film)
