A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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You Can’t Believe Everything
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Jack Conway

Cast: Gloria Swanson [Patricia Reynolds], Jack Richardson [Hasty Carson], Darrell Foss (Darrel Foss) [Arthur Kirby], Edward Peil [Jim Wheeler], George Hernandez [Henry Pettit], Iris Ashton [Amy Powellson], James R. Cope [Club Danforth], Claire McDowell [Grace Dardley], Grover Franke [Ferdinand Thatcher], Kitty Bradbury [Mrs. Powellson], Bliss Chevalier [Mrs. Morton Danforth]

Triangle Film Corporation production; distributed by Triangle Distributing Corporation [Triangle Production]. / Scenario by Charles Mortimer Peck, from the short story “Smoke” by Norman Sherbrook. Cinematography by Elgin Lessley. / Released 23 June 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Smoke.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.5168.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 June 2025.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.5168; Brownlow-Parade p. 374; Hudson-Swanson pp. 117, 118; Quirk-Swanson pp. 25, 65, 66-68 : Website-ASFFDb.