Category:1917, Top Films

1913 -- 1914 -- 1915 -- 1916

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1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1921

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-- The Immigrant (Chaplin) -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Neilan) -- [A] Little Princess (Neilan) -- [The] Poor Little Rich Girl (Tourneur) -- [La] guerra ed il sogno di Momi (Pastrone)

Notable Mention

{en} [The] Adventurer (USA 1917 Chaplin) <YouTube> -- The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.

{en} [The] Cure (USA 1917 Chaplin) <YouTube> -- An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

{en} Easy Street (USA 1917 Chaplin) <YouTube> -- A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.

{de} Fear / Furcht (DEU 1917 Wiene) <YouTube> -- After years travelling the world, Count Greven returns home with the art treasures he has collected. But his disposition has altered dramatically and he is a troubled man. Will he suffer alone or can he be helped and freed from this malady?

-- * Rapsodia Satanica (Oxilia -- * The Dying Swan (Bauer)

Additional Films

-- A Man There Was [Terje Vigen] (Sjostrom) -- Il Fauno (Mauri) -- Mater dolorosa (Gance) -- Bucking Broadway (Ford) -- Malombra (Gallone) -- The Lass from the Stormy Croft [Tosen fran Stormyrtorpet] (Sjostrom) -- Satan Triumphant (Protazanov) -- Coney Island (Arbuckle)

{en} Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (USA 1917 Franklin) <YouTube> -- The story of Aladdin and the Princess Badr al-badr's adventures as told through child actors.

{en} [An] Even Break (USA 1917 Hillyer) <YouTube> -- Claire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon reaching adulthood, Claire goes to New York and becomes a success on stage. Jimmie, who has always dreamed of becoming an inventor, goes to New York to sell the machine he invented, and there he renews his acquaintance with Claire.

{en} '49-'17 (USA 1917 Baldwin) <YouTube> -- A retired judge comes West to restore a ghost town.

{en} Great Expectations (USA 1917 Vignola) <lost>

{en} [The] Little American (USA 1917 DeMille) <YouTube> -- A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

{en} [The] Man Without a Country (USA 1917 Warde) <YouTube> -- When Barbara Norton is left orphaned, she goes to live with her aunt and uncle. Time passes, now grown to adulthood, Barbara, becomes engaged to a wealthy young man who believes in pacifism.

{po} [The] Polish Dancer / Bestia (POL 1917 Hertz) <YouTube> -- An immoral small-town girl steals money from her drunk lover in order to go to a big city. There she becomes a cabaret star and seduces a wealthy married entrepreneur.

{en} [A] Romance in the Redwoods (USA 1917 DeMille) <YouTube> -- A young girl (Mary Pickford) 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.

{en} [The] Scarlet Car (USA 1917 De Grasse) <YouTube> -- After discovering that Cyrus Peabody, the president of the bank, and his son Ernest have embezzled $35,000, their cashier, Paul Revere Forbes, threatens to expose them.

{en} Straight Shooting (USA 1917 Ford) <YouTube> -- 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.

{en} Tom Sawyer (USA 1917 Taylor) <YouTube> -- Tom Sawyer, a young Missouri lad, finds fun and adventure with his pals Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn, running away to hide out on Jackson's Island and pretending to be Mississippi River pirates. When Tom is believed dead by his grieving Aunt Polly, he sneaks back to town to attend his own funeral.

Critical Reception

Flickchart, Best Films

#1. The Immigrant (Chaplin)
#2. Easy Street (Chaplin)
#3. The Cure (Chaplin)
#4. The Adventurer (Chaplin)
#5. A Man There Was [Terje Vigen] (Sjostrom)
#6. Coney Island (Arbuckle)
#7. <The Butcher Boy> (Arbuckle)
#8. <The Rough House> (Arbuckle)
#9. <Straight Shooting> (Ford)
#10. <His Wedding Night> (Arbuckle)

#11. The Dying Swan (Bauer)
#12. Wild and Woolly(Emerson)
#13. <A Modern Musketeer> (Dwan)
#14. <Teddy at the Throttle> (Badger)
#15. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Neilan)
#16. <Bobby Bumps Starts for School> (Hurd)
#17. <His Torpedoed Love> (Griffin)
#18. <Reaching for the Moon> (Emerson)
#19. <Oh Doctor> (Arbuckle)
#20. <The Pinch Hitter> (Schertzinger)

History of Cinema, Best Films

-- ** The Immigrant (Chaplin) -- ** Easy Street (Chaplin) -- ** The Cure (Chaplin) -- ** The Adventurer (Chaplin) -- A Man There Was [Terje Vigen] (Sjostrom) -- * The Dying Swan (Bauer) -- Coney Island (Arbuckle)

-- * Rapsodia Satanica (Oxilia -- ~ The Poor Little Rich Girl -- Il Fauno (Mauri) -- Mater dolorosa (Gance) -- ~ The Little Princess (Neilan) -- Bucking Broadway (Ford) -- Malombra (Gallone) -- The Lass from the Stormy Croft [Tosen fran Stormyrtorpet] (Sjostrom) -- Satan Triumphant (Protazanov)

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #74. The Immigrant (Chaplin)

-- #150. Easy Street (Chaplin) -- #161. The Cure (Chaplin) -- #176. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Neilan) -- #231. Fear / Furcht (Wiene) -- #254. The Adventurer (Chaplin)

-- #300+. The Narrow Trail -- Rapsodia Satanica -- The Dying Swan (Bauer) -- Wild and Woolly(Emerson)