Public Be Damned

{{short description|1917 film directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Public Be Damned | image = | caption = | director = Stanner E.V. Taylor | producer = | writer = Stanner E.V. Taylor | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Mary Fuller|Charles Richman|Chester Barnett}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = | studio =Public Rights Film | distributor = Select Pictures | released = {{Film date|1917|07|02}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent <br> English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Public Be Damned''''' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor and starring Mary Fuller, Charles Richman and Chester Barnett. The film's negative portrayal of food hoarding at a time of increased shortages due to the American entry into World War I led to it being publicly endorsed by Herbert Hoover, who shot a prologue to introduce the film. It was followed shortly afterwards by a similarly-themed production ''The Food Gamblers'' by Allan Dwan.<ref>Lombardi p.77</ref>

==Cast== * Mary Fuller as Marion Fernley * Charles Richman as John Black * Chester Barnett as Robert Merritt * Joseph W. Smiley as Bill Garvin * Russell Bassett as David Higgins * Herbert Hoover as himself

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==Bibliography== * Frederic Lombardi. ''Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios''. McFarland, 2013.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0008471}}

Category:1917 films Category:1917 drama films Category:American silent drama films Category:Films directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor Category:American silent feature films Category:1917 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Selznick Pictures films Category:1917 American films Category:English-language drama films