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Movies: Popular Movies of 1917

Movies in chronological context: 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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The Immigrant(1917)

NR
| 24min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 144 votes)

A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, ...
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Easy Street(1917)

26min | Comedy, Action
3.6/5 (with 74 votes)

A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries to improve his life of poverty by becoming a policeman. His first assignment will be to patrol along Easy Street, the turf of a vicious bully and his criminal gang.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon, ...

The Cure(1917)

31min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Wood, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, ...

The Adventurer(1917)

26min | Comedy, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him….

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin, Monta Bell, ...

A Man There Was(1917)

56min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 37 votes)

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Directed by Victor Sjöström - With Victor Sjöström

Coney Island(1917)

NR
| 25min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Bryant, Joe Bordeaux, ...

The Rough House(1917)

NR
| 22min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 26 votes)

Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the charming delivery boy. As one thing leads to another, Mr Rough ends up preparing dinner for a pair of duplicitous guests, when, clearly, he should be staying out of the kitchen. Does Mrs Rough know the visitors' true intentions? But, above all, how will this disastrous dinner party at the Rough house end?

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Buster Keaton, Glen Cavender

The Butcher Boy(1917)

NR
| 30min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Joe Bordeaux, Josephine Stevens

His Wedding Night(1917)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Alice Lake, Josephine Stevens

Satan's Rhapsody(1917)

44min | Mystery, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, but in return she must stay away from love. After making the deal, she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.

Directed by Nino Oxilia - With Lyda Borelli, Alberto Nepoti

Oh, Doctor!(1917)

NR
| 23min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Roscoe Arbuckle, Alice Mann

The Dying Swan(1917)

49min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

When Viktor meets Gizella one day beside the lake, he takes an interest in her and begins to call on her regularly. The one passion in the life of Gizella, who is unable to speak, is dancing. When Viktor deceives her and she finds him with another woman, she moves away and begins a career as a ballerina. Later, as she is on tour performing “The Dying Swan”, the artist Glinskiy attends her performance. Glinskiy, whose own obsession is to depict death in his art, becomes fascinated by Gizella, and he is determined to use her as a model for a special project.

Directed by Yevgeni Bauer - With Vera Karalli
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The Poor Little Rich Girl(1917)

1h 18min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.

Directed by Maurice Tourneur - With Mary Pickford, Charles Craig, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, Herbert Prior, ...

Bucking Broadway(1917)

NR
| 55min | Western, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.

Directed by John Ford - With Harry Carey, Molly Malone, Vester Pegg, William Steele, Gertrude Astor

The Dull Sword(1917)

4min | Comedy, Animation
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

A samurai purchases a new sword only to find it is already dull. When he returns to the dull looking merchant to complain, something quite unexpected happens.

Directed by Kōuchi Jun'ichi

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm(1917)

1h 18min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) is a silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 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 smash.

Directed by Marshall Neilan - With Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brien, Charles Stanton Ogle, Kate Toncray, Milton Berle, ZaSu Pitts, ...

The Portrait of Captain Grogg(1917)

7min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait.

Directed by Victor Bergdahl - With Victor Bergdahl

Straight Shooting(1917)

NR
| 1h 12min | Western
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

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 Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.

Directed by John Ford - With Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, Hoot Gibson, Molly Malone, Vester Pegg

Thaïs(1917)

35min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

The beautiful Thaïs Galitzy plays Vera, a Slavic countess, a seductress who drags married men to the brink of ruin. When she seduces the husband of her best friend, all involved meet a nasty fate.

Directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia - With Ileana Leonidoff

Teddy at the Throttle(1917)

26min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.

Directed by Clarence G. Badger - With Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Bobby Vernon

The War and the Dream of Momi(1917)

37min | Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Animation, War
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

"The War and the Dream of Momi" was a patriotic war film directed by Giovanni Pastrone. Segundo de Chomón was responsible for the animation effects.

Directed by Segundo de Chomón, Giovanni Pastrone - With Alberto Nepoti, Valentina Frascaroli, Enrico Gemelli

A Little Princess(1917)

1h 2min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

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, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

Directed by Marshall Neilan, Howard Hawks - With Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, ZaSu Pitts, Theodore Roberts, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Josephine Hutchinson, ...

The Little American(1917)

1h 3min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph Levering - With Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Walter Long, Ben Alexander, ...

Ashes(1917)

30min | Drama, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to protect him. The amulet will be the key to put him in connection with his old mother when the boy grows up.

Directed by Febo Mari - With Eleonora Duse, Febo Mari, Nietta Mordeglia

A Romance of the Redwoods(1917)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Mary Pickford, Charles Stanton Ogle, Elliott Dexter, Raymond Hatton, Tully Marshall, Walter Lang, ...

The Merry Jail(1917)

48min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Ossi Oswalda, Ernst Lubitsch, Erich Schönfelder, Hanns Kräly, ...

Wild and Woolly(1917)

1h 12min | Comedy, Western
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.

Directed by John Emerson - With Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Tom Wilson, Edward Burns, Monte Blue, Adolphe Menjou, ...

Fear(1917)

1h 12min | Horror, Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.

Directed by Robert Wiene - With Bruno Decarli, Conrad Veidt, Bernhard Goetzke, Hermann Picha, Mechthildis Thein

'49–'17(1917)

1h 1min | Western
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.

Directed by Ruth Ann Baldwin

A Reckless Romeo(1917)

NR
| 23min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.

Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Buster Keaton
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