Top 10 Films of 1917

1. "Il Fauno" (Febo Mari, Italy)

2. "The Merry Jail" (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany)

3. "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" (Marshall Neilan, Artcraft)

4. "A Romance Of The Redwoods" (Cecil B.DeMille, Paramount)

5. "King Of Paris" (Yevgeni Bauer, Russia)

6. "For Happiness" (Yevgeni Bauer, Russia)

7. "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (Maurice Tourneur, Artcraft)

8. "Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp" (Sidney Franklin, Fox)

9. "Bestia" (Aleksander Hertz, Poland)

10. "The Clown" (A.W. Sandberg, Denmark)

Other great films:

Cleopatra

Short Top 10:

1. "Easy Street" (Charles Chaplin, Mutual)

2. "The Immigrant" (Charles Chaplin, Mutual)

3. "The Adventurer" (Charles Chaplin, Mutual)

4. "Teddy At The Throttle" (Mack Sennett, Keystone)

5. "The Butcher Boy" (Roscoe Arbuckle, Paramount)

6. "Max et le sac" (Max Linder, France)

7. "The Cure" (Charles Chaplin, Mutual)

8. "A Clever Dummy" (H. Raymaker, Ferris Hartman, Robert P. Kerr, Keystone)

9. "His Wedding Night" (Roscoe Arbuckle, Paramount)

10. "Pimple's The Whip" (Fred Evans, Joe Evans, UK)

Other great shorts:

The Chief Cook
The Rough House

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Bobby Bump's Fourth" (Earl Hurd, Bray)

2. "Colonel Heeza Liar On The Jump" (Vernon Stallings, Bray)

3. "Bobby Bumps Starts For School" (Earl Hurd, Bray)

Weak films of 1917:

The Dying Swan (Russia)
Malombra (Italy)
Pride Of The Clan
Il Processo Clemenceau (Italy)
Raffles The Amateur Cracksman
Terje Vigen (Sweden)

Weak shorts:

Bliss
By The Sad Sea Waves
Coney Island
The Flirt
Max entre deux feux (France)
Max In A Taxi
Move On
Oh, Doctor!
Over The Fence
Thais (Italy)
When Ben Bolted
The Wrong Mr Fox