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The Honor System
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Cast: Milton Sills [Joseph Stanton], Cora Drew [Mrs. Stanton, his mother], James A. Marcus [Governor John Hunter], Arthur Mackley [Stephen Holt], Miriam Cooper [Edith], George Walsh [Jack Taylor], Charles Clary [Crales Harrington], Gladys Brockwell [Trixie Bennett], Roy Rice [‘Three-Fingered’ Louis], Pomeroy J. Cannon [James Phelan], Johnny Reese [Mugsey]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Produced by William Fox. Scenario by Raoul Walsh, from the novel The Honor System by Henry Christeen Warnack. Set design by George Grenier. Assistant director, J. Gordon Cooper. Cinematography by Georges Benoît, George Richter and Len Powers. Film editor, Hettie Gray Baker. Intertitles written by Hettie Gray Baker. Music score by S.L. Rothapfel. Presented by William Fox. / © 4 December 1916 by William Fox [LP9660]. Premiered 6 February 1917 at Lyric Theatre in New York, New York. Released February 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A special release. Prison sequences shot in the Arizona State Prison. The film was rereleased in the USA by Fox Film Corporation in 1920.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2030.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Prisons - USA: Arizona
Listing updated: 23 June 2012.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2030; Cooper-Dark pp. 120a, 123, 126-128, 130, 133-137, 141, 142, 144, 153; Gallagher-Ford p. 452.
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