A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Square Deceiver
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Fred J. Balshofer

Cast: Harold Lockwood [Billy Van Dyke], Pauline Curley [Beatrice Forsythe], William Clifford [William Pugfeather], Dora Mills Adams [Mrs. Pugfeather], Kathryn Hutchison [Celia Pugfeather], Betty Marvin [Edith Van Dyke], Dick L’Estrange [Dick Blakesley]

Yorke Film Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Fred J. Balshofer and Richard V. Spencer, from the novel Love Me for Myself by Francis Perry Elliott. Cinematography by Antonio Gaudio (Tony Gaudio). Presented by Yorke Film Corporation. / © 26 November 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11745]. Released 3 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Love Me for Myself Alone.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 13 October 2025.

References: ClasIm-223 p. 22 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.