Hands Up! is a 1917 Western film

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 directed by Tod Browning

Tod Browning

Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...

. This was Colleen Moore's last film for Triangle/Fine Arts. D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

 had withdrawn from the Triangle arrangement and taken many performers and staff, who were under contract specifically with Fine Arts (Griffith) rather than Triangle. Moore's contract was with Fine Arts. However Griffith had gone to Europe where he made Hearts of the World

Hearts of the World

Hearts of the World is a silent film directed by D.W. Griffith, a wartime propaganda classic that was filmed on location in Britain and near the Western Front, made at the request of the British Government to change the neutral mindset of the American public.-Plot:Two families live next to one...

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Cast

• Wilfred Lucas
  Wilfred Lucas
  Wilfred Lucas was a Canadian stage and film actor, film director, and screenwriter.-Career:A native of Ontario, Canada, Lucas headed to New York City to work in the theater, making his Broadway acting debut in 1904 at the Savoy Theater in the production of The Superstition of Sue...
  
   - John Houston
• Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...
  
   - Marjorie Houston
• Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....
  
   - Dan Tracy
• Beatrice Van
  Beatrice Van
  Beatrice Van was an American silent film actress. She was also a screenwriter for both silent and sound films....
  
   - Elinor Craig
• Rhea Haines
  Rhea Haines
  Rhea Haines was a silent film actress from Indiana.Haines was a leading lady for the film company of actor Hobart Bosworth. She played in films with Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, and Mack Sennett. In 1920 she appeared in Mary Ellen Comes To Town and Always Audacious for Paramount Pictures...
  
   - Rosanna
• Bert Woodruff
  Bert Woodruff
  Bert Woodruff was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 64 films between 1916 and 1931. He was born in Peoria, Illinois and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Jim Bludso...
  
   - Tim Farley
• Kate Toncray
  Kate Toncray
  Kate Toncray was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 178 films between 1905 and 1925. She was born in St...
  
  - Mrs. Farley