The Crab is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Walter Edwards and starring child actress Thelma Salter and actor Frank Keenan. Its production was supervised by Thomas H. Ince with distribution by Triangle Film Corporation.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The CrabProgressive Silent Film List: The Crab at silentera.com
Cast Thelma Salter as Ivy Marten Frank Keenan as Foster Borrum Ernest Butterworth as 'Warts' Warner Gertrude Claire as Mrs. Borrum J. P. Lockney as Jim Owens Tom Guise as 'Doc' Wingate (credited as Thomas Guise) Aggie Herring as Townswoman (uncredited)
Preservation status Prints of The Crab are preserved in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection and the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Crab
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