The Honor System | |
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Directed by | Raoul Walsh (ass't director:J. Gordon Cooper) |
Screenplay by | Raoul Walsh (scenario) Hettie Gray Baker (titles) |
Based on | The Honor System by Henry Christeen Warnack |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Milton Sills Miriam Cooper |
Cinematography | Georges Benoit Len Powers George Richter |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 reels |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Honor System is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Milton Sills and Cora Drew. The film established Walsh as a director. [1] It was based on a novel of the same name by Henry Christeen Warnack.
With no prints of The Honor System located in any film archives, [2] it is a lost film.
Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and for directing such films as the widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930) starring John Wayne in his first leading role, The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra (1941) starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964. His work has been noted as influences on directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jack Hill, and Martin Scorsese.
Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
What Price Glory? is a 1926 American silent comedy-drama war film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film is based on the 1924 play What Price Glory by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings and was remade in 1952 as What Price Glory starring James Cagney. Malcolm Stuart Boylan, founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, was title writer on the silent Fox attraction.
Doris Margaret Kenyon was an American actress of motion pictures and television.
Michael Morton was an English dramatist in the early 20th century.
George Frederick Walsh was an American actor. An all-around athlete, who became an actor and later returned to sport, he enjoyed 40 years of fame and was a performer with dual appeal, with women loving his sexy charm and men appreciating his manly bravura.
The Silent Lie is a 1917 silent drama film, produced and released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Walsh's then-wife Miriam Cooper.
The Deep Purple is a lost 1915 film directed by James Young from a play written by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. The film stars Clara Kimball Young and Milton Sills, and was remade in 1920 again titled The Deep Purple by director Raoul Walsh.
Shadows is a 1919 American silent film drama produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Reginald Barker. It stars opera singer Geraldine Farrar.
The Pride of New York is a lost 1917 American silent war drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring his brother George Walsh. It was produced by and distributed through the Fox Film Corporation.
The Conqueror is a 1917 American silent biographical Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring William Farnum. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.
His Captive Woman is a 1929 American part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories ." It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers studios. The Vitaphone sound system was also a subsidiary of Warners. Both Mackaill and Sills as well as director Fitzmaurice had worked together on the previous year's The Barker.
The Forgotten Law is a 1922 American silent melodrama film starring Milton Sills and directed by James W. Horne. The story was adapted from the 1906 novel A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley.
The Yellow Ticket is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William Parke and starring Fannie Ward. It is based on Michael Morton's 1914 play The Yellow Ticket. This screen adaptation of the play is currently classified as a lost film.
The Little Fool is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Milton Sills, Frances Wadsworth and Nigel Barrie.
Southern Pride is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and starring Gail Kane, Cora Drew, and John Vosper.
Diamonds and Pearls is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Kitty Gordon, Milton Sills, and George MacQuarrie.
Souls Adrift is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Ethel Clayton, Milton Sills and Frank DeVernon.
Cora Rankin Drew was a silent film actress in the United States. Her performances included leading roles in The Burned Hand (1915), The Honor System (1917), and Southern Pride (1917). She expressed frustration with casting imbalances between men and women. In 1921, Canadian Moving Picture Digest included a favorable description of one of her performances.
The Savage Woman is a 1918 American silent adventure film directed by Edmund Mortimer and Robert G. Vignola and starring Clara Kimball Young, Edward Kimball, and Milton Sills.