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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Miss Robinson Crusoe
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Christy Cabanne

Cast: Emmy Wehlen [Pamela Sayre], Walter C. Miller (Walter Miller) [Bertie Holden], Harold Entwhistle (Harold Entwistle) [Charles Van Gordon], Sue Balfour [Aunt Agatha], Gertrude Seddon (Margaret Seddon) [Aunt Eloise], Augustus Phillips [Bertini], Daniel Jarrett [Van Hoffman], Ethel Hallor

Rolfe Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Produced by B.A. Rolfe. Scenario by June Mathis, from a screen story by William Christy Cabanne and June Mathis. Assistant director, E.A. Thurston. Cinematography by William Fildew. Presented by B.A. Rolfe. / © 2 August 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11170]. Premiered 27 July 1917 at the Orpheum Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Released 30 July 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 November 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.