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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The Sunset Trail
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by George H. Melford

Cast: Vivian Martin [Bess Aiken], Henry A. Barrows [Vernon Treloar], Billy Elmer (William Elmer) [Price Lovel], Harrison Ford [Kirk Levington], Charles Ogle [Judd Aiken], Carmen Phillips [Camilla Aiken]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix, from the story “Aitken’s Gal” by Alice McIver. Assistant director, Roy Marshall. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 10 September 1917 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LP11372]. Released 13 October 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 November 2023.

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