| The Sunset Trail | |
| Director: | George Melford |
| Producer: | Jesse L. Lasky |
| Screenplay: | Beulah Marie Dix Alice McIver |
| Starring: | Vivian Martin Henry A. Barrows William Elmer Harrison Ford Charles Ogle Carmen Phillips |
| Cinematography: | Percy Hilburn (French) |
| Studio: | Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company Famous Players–Lasky Corporation |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Sunset Trail is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Melford, written by Beulah Marie Dix and Alice McIver, and starring Vivian Martin, Henry A. Barrows, William Elmer, Harrison Ford, Charles Ogle, and Carmen Phillips. The picture was released on October 13, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.[1] [2]
Like many American films of the time, The Sunset Trail was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut one intertitle, "I must see you alone," and all love scenes between the married woman and man except for the last one.[3]
The film is preserved at the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.[4]