1917 Movies

A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.

Gitta, a young woman who used to be a famous primadonna before her marriage, abandons her husband and her son for the sake of the theatre and goes to...

The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off role...

Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a yo...

Orphaned after the death of their mother, Nancy Grimm and her baby sister Ellen are taken to the country where Ellen is adopted by the wealthy Walsh f...

The noble family de la Porte lives at castle Medan. After the lost heir August returns unexpectedly, countess Herm, mother-in-law of younger brother J...

The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice...

When Bab Archibald's father gives her $1,000 with the proviso that the gift will serve as her allowance for the year, our heroine proceeds to blow the...

Set in the Great White North, the film stars Bennett as the object of affections for several rugged northerners, including a couple of disreputable ga...

Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell.

Bobby works at his father's office; there is some question of payment, however.

Kick In is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It is based on the 1914 Broadway pla...

In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with t...

Lonesome Luke, Lawyer is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

A 1917 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.

The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in lo...

Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. S...