1917

Film Decades: 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The Adventurer – Charlie Chaplin – short
  • All Aboard – starring Harold Lloyd – short
  • The Bad Boy – starring Robert Harron, Mildred Harris, Colleen Moore
  • The Butcher Boy – directed by and starring “Fatty” Arbuckle, with Buster Keaton
  • Camille – starring Theda Bara
  • The Charlatan – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • The Colonel – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bela Lugosi – aka Az Ezredes– Hungary
  • The Cure – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Edna Purviance – short
  • Earth’s Man – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Easy Street – directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, with Edna Purviance
  • The Empress – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, starring Doris Kenyon, Holbrook Blinn, & William A. Morse
  • Fear – directed by Robert Wiene, starring Conrad Veidt – Germany
  • The Fishing Bell – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Harrison and Barrison – directed by Alexander Korda, starring Márton Rátkai – Hungary
  • Her Right to Live – directed by Paul Scardon, starring Peggy Hyland, Antonio Moreno, Mae Costello, John S. Robertson
  • Hilde Warren und der Tod – directed by Fritz Lang
  • Jean the Tenant – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • The Last Dawn – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • A Little Princess – directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, ZaSu Pitts
  • The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach – directed by Rudolf Biebrach, starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings – Germany
  • Master Zoard – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Nobody’s Son – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • One Law for Both – directed by Ivan Abramson
  • Peace’s Road – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • A Penny’s History – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • The Poor Little Rich Girl – directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks, and Frank McGlynn Sr.
  • Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman – directed by George Irving, starring John Barrymore and Evelyn Brent
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford
  • A Reckless Romeo – directed by and starring Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle – short
  • The Red Samson – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • A Romance of the Redwoods – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Rough House – directed by and starring Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle & Buster Keaton – short
  • Secret of St. Job Forest – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • The Silent Man – directed by and starring William S. Hart
  • Souls Triumphant – starring Lillian Gish – lost
  • Spring in Winter – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Straight Shooting – directed by John Ford, starring Harry Carey
  • The Sultan’s Wife – starring Gloria Swanson
  • Tartar Invasion – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • Tom Sawyer – starring Jack Pickford
  • The Tornado – directed by John Ford (his debut) – lost
  • The Torture of Silence – directed by Abel Gance – aka Mater Dolorosa – France
  • Teddy at the Throttle – a Keystone comedy – starring Gloria Swanson
  • Wild and Woolly – starring Douglas Fairbanks