The Innocent Sinner

The Innocent Sinner

Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Written by	Mary Synon Raoul Walsh
Starring	Miriam Cooper Charles Clary Jack Standing
Cinematography	Dal Clawson
Production company	Fox Film
Distributed by	Fox Film
Release date	July 21, 1917 (1917-07-21)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Innocent Sinner is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Miriam Cooper, Charles Clary and Jack Standing.^[1]

Cast

Miriam Cooper as Mary Ellen Ellis
Charles Clary as David Graham
Jack Standing as Walter Benton
Jane Novak as Jane Murray
Rosita Marstini as Madame De Coeur
William Parsons as Bull Clark
Johnny Reese as The Weasel
Jennie Lee as Mother Ellis

Release

Before The Innocent Sinner could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the insertion of a new intertitle, saying "So he married you then and now wants to desert you."^[2]

References

^ Solomon p.240
^ "Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society". www.kansashistory.gov. Retrieved November 2, 2025.

Bibliography

Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.

External links

The Innocent Sinner at IMDb

Films directed by Raoul Walsh
1910s	Regeneration (1915) Peer Gynt (1915) Carmen (1915) Blue Blood and Red (1916) The Serpent (1916) The Honor System (1917) The Silent Lie (1917) Betrayed (1917) The Conqueror (1917) The Pride of New York (1917) The Innocent Sinner (1917) On the Jump (1918) The Prussian Cur (1918) Every Mother's Son (1918) I'll Say So (1918) Evangeline (1919) Should a Husband Forgive? (1919)
1920s	The Deep Purple (1920) The Oath (1921) Serenade (1921) Kindred of the Dust (1922) Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) East of Suez (1925) The Spaniard (1925) The Wanderer (1925) The Lucky Lady (1926) The Lady of the Harem (1926) What Price Glory? (1926) The Monkey Talks (1927) The Loves of Carmen (1927) Sadie Thompson (1928) The Red Dance (1928) Me, Gangster (1928) The Cock-Eyed World (1929) Hot for Paris (1929)
1930s	The Big Trail (1930) The Man Who Came Back (1931) Women of All Nations (1931) The Yellow Ticket (1931) Wild Girl (1932) Me and My Gal (1932) Sailor's Luck (1933) Hello, Sister! (1933) The Bowery (1933) Going Hollywood (1933) Under Pressure (1935) Baby Face Harrington (1935) Every Night at Eight (1935) Klondike Annie (1936) Big Brown Eyes (1936) Spendthrift (1936) Artists and Models (1937) Hitting a New High (1937) O.H.M.S. (1937) Jump for Glory (1937) College Swing (1938) St. Louis Blues (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939)
1940s	Dark Command (1940) They Drive by Night (1940) High Sierra (1941) The Strawberry Blonde (1941) Manpower (1941) They Died with Their Boots On (1941) Desperate Journey (1942) Gentleman Jim (1942) Background to Danger (1943) Northern Pursuit (1943) Uncertain Glory (1944) Objective, Burma! (1945) Salty O'Rourke (1945) The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) The Man I Love (1947) Pursued (1947) Cheyenne (1947) Silver River (1948) Fighter Squadron (1948) One Sunday Afternoon (1948) Colorado Territory (1949) White Heat (1949)
1950s	Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) Along the Great Divide (1951) Distant Drums (1951) Glory Alley (1952) The World in His Arms (1952) Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) The Lawless Breed (1953) Sea Devils (1953) A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) Gun Fury (1953) Saskatchewan (1954) Battle Cry (1955) The Tall Men (1955) The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) The King and Four Queens (1956) Band of Angels (1957) The Naked and the Dead (1958) The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) A Private's Affair (1959)
1960s	Esther and the King (1960) Marines, Let's Go (1961) A Distant Trumpet (1964)