Seventeen-year-old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette Lola Pratt. After he has spent all his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man.
Harvey F. Thew, Booth Tarkington
United States
Picture, if you can, the summer of 1916: streetcars clatter, the Great War churns across Atlantic cables, and in a nameless Midwestern burg the lilac air is thick with ragtime and adolescent longing. Into this crucible steps Seventeen, a silent serenade stitched together by Paramount’s wizards and Booth Tarkington’s ...
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Robert G. Vignola
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" Picture, if you can, the summer of 1916: streetcars clatter, the Great War churns across Atlantic cables, and in a nameless Midwestern burg the lilac air is thick with ragtime and adolescent longing. Into this crucible steps Seventeen, a silent serenade stitched together by Paramount’s wizards and Booth Tarkington’s bittersweet ink. The film is a vanished pearl; most prints dissolved into nitrate smoke long ago, yet its after-image persists like the ghost of a first kiss. William Sylvanus Bax..."
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