Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."
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Jack Mulhall as Billy Brooks
Wadsworth Harris as Brooks Sr.
Fritzi Ridgeway as Mildred Nebeker
Eugene Owen as Nebeker
Fred Burns as Foreman
Millard K. Wilson as Mexican (as M.K. Wilson)
Grace McLean as Juanita (as Grace MacLean)
Noble Johnson as Native American
United States 23 April 1917
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1917:
08 October 1917
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
01 July 1917
After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget.
24 June 1917
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city.
20 July 1917
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
06 August 1917
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealthy idler Robert Curtis and Lydia Benson are among the passengers on an ocean liner that is sunk by a German submarine.
04 February 1917
Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the same name.
26 February 1917
While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust open and a little boy is thrown at her feet.
13 January 1917
Kick In is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay.
29 October 1917
William Lewis accidentally shoots a policeman while breaking into a house as a prank with his friends.
12 November 1917
Duplicity and double crosses run thick and fast when Ben Farraday forces Nan Kennedy to steal documents from Ben’s enemy John Lawson in exchange for his silence about her escapee brother’s whereabouts.
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