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The Outsider
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by William C. Dowlan
Cast: Emmy Wehlen [Sally Manvers], Herbert Heyes [Trego], Florence Short [Mrs. Standish], Virginia Palmer [Mrs. Gosnold], Jules Raucourt [Walter Arden Savage], Harry Benham [Donald Lyttleton], Ilean Hume [Lucy Spode], Gladys Fairbanks [Miss Price]
Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Charles A. Taylor, from the novel Nobody by Louis Joseph Vance. Cinematography by John M. Bauman. Assistant director, Benjamin S. Kutler. Presented by B.A. Rolfe and Metro Pictures Corporation. / © 1 November 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11653]. Released 5 November 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 1 December 1917, page ?] After complaining about her dull life, shop girl Sally Manvers falls asleep on the roof of her apartment. Drenched from a downpour, Sally awakens and finds the roof entrance locked. She enters the apartment of society woman Mrs. Standish and encounters Mrs. Standish’s brother, Walter Arden Savage, opening the safe. Sally protects Savage from a burglar, and after learning that he and his sister plan to steal their jewels to collect insurance money, she agrees to keep quiet if they take her with them to Newport. Although Savage, Donald Lyttleton, and Trego, a Western millionaire, woo her, Sally, who becomes a secretary to Savage’s wealthy aunt Mrs. Gosnold, tires of society life. After a detective arrives, Savage plots to have Sally, whom he thinks will squeal, kidnapped, but Mrs. Gosnold changes clothes with her and is abducted instead. Savage recovers her, and at a masquerade ball the thieves are revealed. Sally returns to New York disgusted, but Trego, who earlier rescued her from Lyttleton, follows. Sally accepts his proposal and suggests that they live on Riverside Drive rather than Fifth Avenue or in Newport.
Survival status: Prints exists in the Cinemateket-Svenska Filminstitutet film archive; and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 February 2024.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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