The Silent Partner is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Marshall Neilan from a screen story by Edmund Goulding and starred Blanche Sweet, who in a few years would marry Marshall Neilan. The film was remade in 1923, and also released by Paramount Pictures.
The film follows two American sisters: Alice and Dimny Parcot (Sweet in a dual role). Alice and their mother (Mary Alden) get stranded in Belgium when World War I breaks out. Both are raped by German soldiers and die. Dimny, who is still in the United States, is unaware of the fates of her sister and mother. She sets out to Belgium to find them.
Dans le nord-ouest canadien, Jen Galbraith vit dans une auberge avec son frère Val et son père Peter, un contrebandier qui vend du whisky aux Indiens. Pierre, l'ami de Val, entend conquérir Jen, même si celle-ci est amoureuse du Sergent Tom Gellatly de la Police Montée. Lorsque Val essaie de récupérer une liqueur vendue illégalement par le vieux Galbraith à un Indien nommé Nuage gris, l'indien insulte Jen et Val l'abat. Tom est mandaté pour traquer le meurtrier, mais lorsqu'il arrive à la taverne, Galbraith et Pierre le droguent. Jen livre ses papiers au quartier général de la police, mais quand elle découvre qu'ils contiennent un mandat pour arrêter son frère, elle tire sur Tom pour l'empêcher de s'en prendre à Val. Pierre apparaît et attaque Jen, et peu après, Val revient, suivi de près par une équipe de police. Val et Jen forcent Pierre à avouer qu'il a tué l'indien, et Tom dit à la police qu'il est mort accidentellement.
, 1h13 Directed byMarshall Neilan, Alfred E. Green OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Western ActorsMary Pickford, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue Rating64% The film takes place in the mining town of Red Gulch in the High Sierra. M'Liss (Mary Pickford) is one of the inhabitants whose father "Bummer" (Theodore Roberts) lost his fortune in the gold mines. Now his only investment, which pays a dividend, is his chicken Hildegarde. M'Liss regards herself as a crook and robs Yuba Bill's stage coach. Yuba, however, is fascinated by the young lady and does not mind.
, 1h20 Directed byMarshall Neilan OriginUSA GenresDrama, Romance ActorsBlanche Sweet, Conrad Nagel, Stuart Holmes, George Fawcett, Victory Bateman, Courtenay Foote Rating63% A young servant girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England when employed in his household. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. This fact prompts her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.