The False Friend is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harry Davenport and starring Robert Warwick, Gail Kane and Jack Drumier.[1]

The False Friend
Promotion of film in Variety, 1917
Directed byHarry Davenport
Written byFlorence Bolles
Produced byWilliam A. Brady
Starring
CinematographyPhilip Hatkin
Production
company
World Film
Distributed byWorld Film
Release date
  • June 11, 1917 (1917-06-11)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • Silent
  • English intertitles

Cast

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Reception

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The New York Clipper's review was mixed, the reviewer found the cinematography and detail to be excellent but found the story to be strained. Elaborating, the reviewer said "the overtax on its sympathy and the long strain of worry imposed upon it by multiplied acts of villainy in the picture, will outbalance the interest the film excites."[2]

References

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  1. Parish p.157
  2. The New York Clipper. New York: Clipper Corp. June 6, 1917. p. 33.

Bibliography

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  • James Robert Parish. Hollywood character actors. Arlington House, 1978.
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