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The Crab (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Crab' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Walter Edwards and starring child actress Thelma Salter and actor Frank Keenan. Its production was supervised by Thomas H. Ince with distribution by Triangle Film Corporation.[http://catalog.afi.com/Film/15672-THE-CRAB?sid= The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: 'The Crab'][http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Crab1917.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Crab'] at silentera.com
Cast
*Thelma Salter as Ivy Marten
*Frank Keenan as Foster Borrum
*Ernest Butterworth as 'Warts' Warner
*Gertrude Claire as Mrs. Borrum
*J. P. Lockney as Jim Owens
*Tom Guise as 'Doc' Wingate (credited as Thomas Guise)
*Aggie Herring as Townswoman (uncredited)
Preservation status
Prints of 'The Crab' are preserved in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection and the French archive Centre national du cinma et de l'image anime in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1094/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Crab']
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