''The Honor System'' is a 1917 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Raoul Walsh and starring
Milton Sills
Milton George Gustavus Sills (January 12, 1882 – September 15, 1930) was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
Biography
Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henr ...
and
Cora Drew
Cora Rankin Drew (born 1871 or 1872) was a silent film actress in the United States. Her performances included leading roles in '' The Burned Hand'' (1915), '' The Honor System'' (1917), and ''Southern Pride'' (1917). She expressed frustration ...
. The film established Walsh as a director. It was based on a novel of the same name by
Henry Christeen Warnack.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ''The Honor System'' located in any film archives,
The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Honor System''
/ref> it is a lost film
A lost film is a feature
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.
See also
*1937 Fox vault fire
The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ...
References
External links
''The Honor System''
at TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of A ...
''The Honor System''
at BFI
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1917 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Silent American drama films
1917 drama films
Lost American drama films
1910s English-language films
Fox Film films
1917 lost films
English-language drama films
1910s American films
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