John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding school and sent to Lawrenceville Academy. On the stage on the way to the school he meets a silent man whom Dink sizes up for a salesman and he proceeds to wax eloquent on the subject of his past career and the reason he was expelled from his previous school.
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Jack Pickford as John Humperdink Stover
Louise Huff as Laura
Theodore Roberts as A Roman
Ben Suslow as White Mountain Canary
Milton Schumann as Caramel-Colored Angel
Maxfield Stanley as Doc MacNooder
Robert Gordon as Tennessee Shad
Edward Sedgwick as Butsey White
Tom Bates as Al
William Desmond Taylor Director
Owen Johnson Novel
Gardner Hunting Writer
Homer Scott Director of Photography
United States 05 August 1917
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1917:
16 April 1917
Loutish Teddy Brant feeling trapped by his marriage and family commitments to the sweet Rose and their infant daughter Helen fakes his suicide and embarks on a dissolute life.
10 December 1917
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls.
17 March 1917
Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary.
30 April 1917
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
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.
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.
22 February 1917
A young married woman's attraction to a violinist sours as his behaviour grows more and more aggressive.
01 October 1917
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money.
29 January 1917
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
29 September 1917
A woman determines to clear her imprisoned husband of false charges by entrapping the real culprit herself.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1917 Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company.