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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A Nugget in the Rough
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Lewis H. Moomaw

Cast: David Baldridge [the father], Jack Berry [Steve Bolder], Melville W. Brown [Clarence Northrup], Virginia Carlisle [Mrs. Dougherty], Harold Grady [Bob], Katherine Graham [June Northrup], Bert Porter [Mr. Northrup], Mrs. Bert Porter [Mrs. Northrup], Sam Rose [Fatty], Ruth Wieland [the nugget], [?] Jack Hamilton (Shorty Hamilton)?

[?] W.H. Clifford Photoplay Company of California and/or The American Lifeograph Company? production; distributed on State Rights basis by Ernest Shipman [?] through States Rights Independent Exchanges? [?] [Shorty Hamilton Series]? / Released 5 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 October 2023.

References: Spehr-American p. 254 : Website-IMDb.