The Best of 1917
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1. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,727 | Gross: $2.18M
2. A Man There Was (1917)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama, War
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg
Votes: 2,326
3. Easy Street (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 5,823
4. The Cure (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Votes: 3,885
5. The Adventurer (I) (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Comedy, Short
The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Votes: 4,519
6. Bucking Broadway (1917)
53 min | Western
A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells, Vester Pegg
Votes: 675
7. Straight Shooting (1917)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western
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.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell, Molly Malone
Votes: 718
8. The Big Idea (1917)
9 min | Short, Comedy
A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
Directors: Hal Mohr, Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell
Votes: 221
9. Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, May Emory
Votes: 552
10. Umirayushchiy lebed (1917)
49 min | Drama
A grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.
Director: Yevgeny Bauer | Stars: Vera Karalli, Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Vitold Polonsky, Andrey Gromov
Votes: 1,069
11. Satan's Rhapsody (1917)
55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.
Director: Nino Oxilia | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini, Giovanni Cini
Votes: 844
12. The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)
Not Rated | 68 min | Drama
At the request of her dying father, heiress Laura Fairlie marries Sir Percival Glyde, despite her love for Walter Hartridge and the warnings of Ann Catherick, a half-witted girl who bears a... See full summary »
Director: Ernest C. Warde | Stars: Florence La Badie, Richard Neill, Gertrude Dallas, Arthur Bauer
Votes: 102
13. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks
Votes: 1,547
14. The Butcher Boy (1917)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Comedy
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.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Josephine Stevens
Votes: 1,889
15. Bashful (1917)
10 min | Comedy, Short
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell
Votes: 295
16. Za schastem (1917)
41 min | Short, Drama
Since Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's ... See full summary »
Director: Yevgeny Bauer | Stars: Emma Bauer, Tasya Borman, N. Dennitsyna, Aleksandr Kheruvimov
Votes: 139
17. La guerra ed il sogno di Momi (1917)
37 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An old man explains a war story to his grandson, who sleeps and dreams about a battle scenes performed by puppets.
Directors: Segundo de Chomón, Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Romilde Toschi, Alberto Nepoti, Enrico Gemelli, Luigi Petrungaro
Votes: 119
18. Il Fauno (1917)
73 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A sculptor leaves his model alone in his atelier. After initially being afraid of being alone in the atelier, the model falls asleep. In her dreams, the faun statue that is also present in the atelier comes to life. The two fall in love.
Director: Febo Mari | Stars: Nietta Mordeglia, Vasco Creti, Febo Mari, Helena Makowska
Votes: 93
19. The Silent Man (1917)
61 min | Western
A gold prospector strikes it rich, but the crooks who run a frontier town take it away from him. He determines to get it back and clean up the town.
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Vola Vale, Robert McKim, Dorcas Matthews
Votes: 115
20. Kidnapped (II) (1917)
64 min | Adventure, Drama
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Raymond McKee, Joseph Burke, Ray Hallor, William Wadsworth
Votes: 55
21. A Modern Musketeer (1917)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
A restless young man travels west, encountering adventure, romance, and danger.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Kathleen Kirkham, Eugene Ormonde
Votes: 350
22. Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
70 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl.
Director: George Irving | Stars: John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe, Frank Morgan
Votes: 188
23. Polly of the Circus (1917)
80 min | Drama
When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But when the news leaks out, the minister ... See full summary »
Directors: Edwin L. Hollywood, Charles Horan | Stars: Mae Marsh, Vernon Steele, Harry LaPearl, Wellington A. Playter
Votes: 68
24. Wild and Woolly (1917)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Western, Romance
The civilized inhabitants of a formerly "wild" western town scramble to recreate the town's rough and rowdy heyday in order to indulge the fantasies of a rich newcomer.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Calvert Carter, Charles Stevens
Votes: 670
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