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. It is a lost film.
Plot
Cast
Reception
The Times-Union called it a "big screen sensation", and applauded the re-enactments of the military engagements created by Cabanne. 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." 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."
Preservation
With no prints of Draft 258 located in any film archives, it is a lost film.
References
External links
- Draft 258 at IMDb
- Draft 258 at the TCM Movie Database
- Draft 258 at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
