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An Even Break
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Cast: Olive Thomas [Claire Curtis], Charles Gunn [Jimmie Strang], Margaret Thompson [Mary], Darrel Foss [Ralph Harding], Charles French (Charles K. French) [David Harding], J. Frank Burke [Luther Collins], Louis Durham [Canning], [?] ? [Claire Curtis, as a child]

[?] New York Motion Picture Corporation or Triangle Film Corporation? production; distributed by Triangle Distributing Corporation [Triangle Kay-Bee]. / Scenario by Lambert Hillyer. Photographed (cinematography) by John Stuart Stumar. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Dawson City recovery film number ?.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (Public Archives of Canada/Dawson City collection) [35mm fine-grain duplicate negative, 35mm fine-grain reference positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: Film credits : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.