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The Silent Partner
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Marshall A. Neilan (Marshall Neilan)

Cast: Blanche Sweet [Jane Colby], Thomas Meighan [Edward Royle], George Herbert (Henry Hebert) [Harvey Wilson], Ernest Joy [David Pierce], Mabel Van Buren [Edith Preston], Florence Smythe [Mrs. Preston], Mayme Kelso [Mrs. Wilson]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by George DuBois, from a screen story by Edmund Goulding. Assistant director, E. Traxler. Cinematography by Walter Stradling. / © 5 May 1917 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LP10717]. Released 10 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4018.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4018; Drew-Speaking p. 287 : Website-ASFFDb.