Draft 258 | |
Director: | Christy Cabanne |
Starring: | Mabel Taliaferro Walter Miller Earl Brunswick |
Cinematography: | William E. Fildew |
Editing: | Mildred Richter |
Studio: | Metro Pictures |
Distributor: | Metro Pictures |
Runtime: | 4 reels |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
Draft 258 is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne. It stars Mabel Taliaferro, Walter Miller, and Earl Brunswick, and was released on November 15, 1917.[1]
The Times-Union called it a "big screen sensation", and applauded the re-enactments of the military engagements created by Cabanne.[2] The Deming Headlight praised it as "the finest war picture ever produced". They were complimentary of the photography, acting, with the latter being marked for realism, without the "sickening sentimentality that distinguishes so many of the screen productions of the present day."[3] The San Bernardino County Sun gave the film a positive review. They opined it was "a superb production suitable to its great central idea and its thrilling and absorbing story."[4]
With no prints of Draft 258 located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.