''Come Through'' is a 1917 American silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by Jack Conway and starring

Alice Lake Alice Lake (September 12, 1895 – November 15, 1967) was an American film actress. She began her career during the silent film era and often appeared in comedy shorts opposite Roscoe Arbuckle. Career Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lake began her ...

, Jean Hathaway, and

Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Banemann Rawlinson (15 November 1885 – 12 July 1953) was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound f ...

.Parish & Pitts p.75

Cast

as Velma Gay * Jean Hathaway as Mrs. Sylvester Van Deek *

as James Harrington Court, aka 'The Possum' * George Webb as Archie Craig *

Roy Stewart Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television. In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran th ...

as Buck Lindsay *

Charles Hill Mailes Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of the silent era. Biography Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1870, Mailes appeared in 290 films between 1909 and 1935. He married the actress Claire McDowell ...

as John Lysaght * Margaret Whistler as Mrs. Stoat *

William J. Dyer William J. Dyer (March 11, 1881 – December 22, 1933) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in dozens of films, mostly Westerns and action films, between 1915 and 1933. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Hollywood, ...

as McGinnis

References

Bibliography

* James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film Directors: A Guide to Their American Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

* * 1917 films 1917 crime films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films American crime films Films directed by Jack Conway American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub