Movies released in 1917

The Devil's Bait

A father's strict upbringing of his beautiful but innocent young daughter may backfire on him when he finds she is being pursued by a lecherous cad who is determined to take her virtue.

The Devil's Pay Day

When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city gaieties. But when Van Houten returned he ... See full summary »

The New York Peacock

Billy Martin is sent to New York to put through a war contract for his father, a new England manufacturer, and takes $100,000 as a security. The munition broker's secretary, a crook, tells ... See full summary »

A Square Deal

Hugh Eltinge, a struggling artist, and Mark Dunbar, a genius of the pen, whom the world has as yet failed to reward, live together in MacDougal Alley. Across the hall is Doris Golden, a ... See full summary »

The Devil-Stone

Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds ... See full summary »

Nina, the Flower Girl

Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on ... See full summary »

The Square Deceiver

Beware of Strangers

Brcko u Zagrebu

A provincial boy named Brcko comes to the city of Zagreb looking for adventure.

The Honeymoon

A Strange Transgressor

The Honor System

A man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.

The Stolen Paradise

The Mother of Dartmoor

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

The Hostage

A Stormy Knight

The Accomplice

The Door Between

Anthony Eckhart, a student of Oriental music, meets Crocker in a Geisha house where he extricates the intoxicated man from the results of an attack upon a waiter. Crocker explains that his ... See full summary »

A Hungry Heart

Vivacious little Gilberte, known as Frou Frou, is the daughter of M. Brigard, a retired merchant, who has as his companion in a life of gaiety, Comte Paul de Valreas, a much younger man. ... See full summary »

Double Crossed

Young Frank Stratton, the scion of a wealthy family who is temporarily short of funds, has borrowed a valuable bracelet and hasn't returned it to its owner. A crooked detective, Jim Foley, ... See full summary »

The Hungry Heart

An Alabaster Box

Lydia Bolton is only a child when financial difficulties overtake her father. His fellow townsmen do not give him support and he goes to the wall. Andrew Bolton goes to prison an embezzler,... See full summary »

On the Level

The Wax Model

Julia Davenant is the neglected daughter of a Parisian dancer who tires of the life she leads, commits suicide and with her last breath tells Julie not to trust men. Julie begins her battle... See full summary »

The Weaker Sex

Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.