A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Spy
(1917) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six, Seven or Eight? reels
Directed by Richard Stanton

Cast: Dustin Farnum [Mark Quaintance], Winifred Kingston [Greta Glaum], William Burress [Freiheer Von Wittzchaeft], Charles Clary [the American ambassador], William E. Lowry (William Lowry) [The Shadow], Howard Gaye [Baron von Bergen]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [Standard Pictures]. / Produced by Richard Stanton. Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by George Bronson Howard, from a screen story by George Bronson Howard. Cinematography by J. Dev Jennings (J. Devereaux Jennings). Presented by William Fox. / © 26 August 1917 by William Fox [LP11352]. Released 19 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: War.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Espionage: Spies - Germany - War

Listing updated: 8 October 2023.

References: Brownlow-Behind p. 12 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.