The False Friend

{{short description|1917 American silent drama film}} {{For|the 1702 play|The False Friend (Vanbrugh play)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The False Friend | image = The False Friend (1917) - 1.jpg | caption = Promotion of film in ''Variety'', 1917 | director = Harry Davenport | producer =William A. Brady | writer =Florence Bolles | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Robert Warwick|Gail Kane|Jack Drumier}} | music = | cinematography = Philip Hatkin | editing = | studio = World Film | distributor = World Film | released = {{Film date|1917|06|11}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = {{ubl|Silent|English intertitles}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''The False Friend''''' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harry Davenport and starring Robert Warwick, Gail Kane and Jack Drumier.<ref>Parish p.157</ref>

==Cast== * Robert Warwick as William Ramsdell * Gail Kane as Virginia Farrell * Jack Drumier as Robert Farrell * Earl Schenck as De Witt Clinton * P.J. Rollow as J. Carleton Clinton * Lewis Edgard as Byron * Pinna Nesbit as Marietta

== Reception == 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."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/per_new-york-clipper_the-new-york-clipper_1917-06-06_65_18/page/32/mode/2up |title=The New York Clipper |date= |publisher=Clipper Corp. |others= |location=New York |publication-date=June 6, 1917 |pages=33 |language=en}}</ref>

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==Bibliography== * James Robert Parish. ''Hollywood character actors''. Arlington House, 1978.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0007928}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:False Friend}} Category:1917 films Category:1917 drama films Category:1917 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent drama films Category:Films directed by Harry Davenport Category:American black-and-white films Category:World Film Company films Category:1917 American films Category:English-language drama films