Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Who Is Number One? (1917)

Who Is Number One? poster
Directed by
William Bertram
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
5h
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent serial mystery where a detective tries to solve a puzzling case. The story involves clues and suspects in a hunt for the truth.

mysteriousseriousold-fashionedsuspensefulbriskstraightforwardarchaic

What happens

Who Is Number One? is a 1917 American silent mystery film serial directed by William Bertram and written by Anna Katharine Green. The film stars Kathleen Clifford, Cullen Landis, Gordon Sackville, Neil Hardin, Bruce Smith, and Ethel Ritchie. The film serial was released on October 29, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. It is presumed to be a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?