A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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An Innocent Villain
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Harry Williams

Cast: George Binns [the comedian], Dale Fuller [the comedian’s wife], Slim St. Clair (Malcolm St. Clair) [the heavy], Marie Manley [the heavy’s wife], [?] Ben Turpin?

Triangle Film Corporation production; distributed by Triangle Distributing Corporation [Keystone Comedies]. / Assistant production manager, Hampton Del Ruth. Assistant director, Bert Lund. Cinematography by C.H. Wales. / Released 22 July 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Working title: Watch and Fob Story?

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 January 2025.

References: Spehr-American p. 598 : Website-IMDb.