A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Square Deceiver
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Fred J. Balshofer

Cast: Harold Lockwood [Billy Van Dyke], Pauline Curley [Beatrice Forsythe], William Clifford [William Pugfeather], Dora Mills Adams [Mrs. Pugfeather], Kathryn Hutchison [Celia Pugfeather], Betty Marvin [Edith Van Dyke], Dick L’Estrange [Dick Blakesley]

Yorke Film Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Fred J. Balshofer and Richard V. Spencer, from the novel Love Me for Myself by Francis Perry Elliott. Cinematography by Antonio Gaudio (Tony Gaudio). / © 26 November 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11745]. Released 3 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Love Me for Myself Alone.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 December 2023.

References: ClasIm-223 p. 22 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.