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.

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The Customary Two Weeks
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Four reels / 4114 feet
Directed by Saul Harrison

Cast: Craig Ward [Harry Burnhart], Herbert Evans [Carl Vibert], Robert Ellis [George Extell], Joseph Burke [‘Pop’ Grinell], Kathryn Adams [Muriel Clemm], Arthur Dennis [Mr. Wetterson]

Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] K-E-S-E Service and/or Forum Films, Incorporated? [A Conquest Picture]. / Scenario by E. Clement D’Art, from the short story “The Customary Two Weeks” by Freeman Tilden. / © 7 August 1917 by Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated [LP11233]. Released 18 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (George Kleine collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 March 2010.

References: Sloan-Loud p. 147 : Website-AFI.