1917 Movies

Mary Turner is a young shopgirl who is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison. Upon her release, she does everything possible to make t...

One of the longest films ever made

Based on an idea by Helen Duey.

Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's house, Mary escapes and Syd is jailed. Mary begins wor...

A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.

After his defeat at the hands of "Spider" Flynn, the welterweight champion of Europe, boxer Jimmie Dolan and his trainer, Thomas Jefferson Jones, leav...

A melodrama of high-society life. No copies of the film have survived.

The whimsical adventures of the impetuous Sheriff Nell (Polly Moran),who keeps Triggerville in line with an iron fist. But her heart is set on Jack,...

Melodrama about love and deceit.

This morality play of the starts off with Grace Vaughn running off with married man Dudley Kent (Wyndham Standing). While sailing to England, they mee...

Naive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland (William Conklin). But when she discovers that he wants to t...

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been trunca...

A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.

Polly Biggs helps care for her younger brother and sisters, while her widowed mother works hard as a seamstress to earn a living. Mayor Hoadley, Mrs....

Early Hungarian silent film from Michael Curtiz

Patches, a beautiful girl, lives with her foster-mother Liza Biggs, who dresses her in rags. She is surprised to see Judas, the overseer, give Liza a...

A 1917 silent film drama

Famous romance writer Hartly Poole retreats to the country for inspiration. There he meets ardent admirer Justina Chaffin, who is about to marry a for...