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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Somewhere in America
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William C. Dowlan

Cast: Thomas J. Carrigan (Thomas Carrigan) [Thomas Leigh, also known as Dorgan], Francine Larrimore [Dorothy Leigh], Herbert Hayes (Herbert Heyes) [John Gray], Daniel Hogan (Danny Hogan) [Daniel Vereno], Mary Miles Minter [Rose Dorgan], Jules Raucourt [Charles Bergere], Sidney D’Albrook [‘Shifty’], Harold Hilton [Little Phillip Dubois]

Rolfe Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Produced by [?] Louis B. Mayer? Scenario by June Mathis. Presented by Metro Pictures Corporation. Presented by B.A. Rolfe. / © 26 July 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11142]. Released July 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Apparently, portions of The Rose of the Alley (1916) were reedited with new intertitles and inserted into this film, serving as a flashback section.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 January 2024.

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