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The Girl by the Roadside
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Theodore Marston

Cast: Violet Mersereau [Judith Ralston], Cecil Owen [Budd Ralston], Ann Andrews [Vera Ralston], Allen Edwards [Boone Pendleton], Robert F. Hill (Robert Hill) [Fayban], Royal Byron [Billy Cartwright], Kenneth Hall [the constable], Sam B. Minter [Jake]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by John C. Brownell, from the novel The Girl by the Roadside by Varick Varnardy (Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey). / © 13 December 1917 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP11841]. Released 31 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Mystery.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1566.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 May 2018.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.1566, F1.1582; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 27 : Website-AFI.