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Key Films of 1917

A scene from the set of The Spirit of '76 (1917)

The producer of this patriotic historical drama received a ten-year prison sentence for attempting to cause a mutiny...

A young Francis and John Ford

‘That Jack Ford, he yells real loud. He’d make a good director.’

A posed still from Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's The Butcher Boy (1917)

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle finds a new sidekick in the short, slender form of 21-year-old Buster Keaton. 

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