A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

The Better Man
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: William Courtleigh [Reverend Mark Stebbling], Arthur Hoops [Reverend Lionel Barmore], Alice Claire Elliott [Margaret Wharton], Robert Broderick [Henry Wharton]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed on State Rights basis by [?] Famous Players Film Company? / From the novel The Better Man by Cyrus Townsend Brady. / Released 1 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0300.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 27 April 2010.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0300; Sloan-Loud pp. 67, 146 : Website-AFI.