Wooden Shoes

For the Krazy Kat film, see Wooden Shoes (1933 film).

Wooden Shoes is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Raymond B. West and starring Bessie Barriscale, Jack Livingston, and Joseph J. Dowling.^[1][2]

Wooden Shoes
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Directed by	Raymond B. West
Written by	J. G. Hawks
Starring	Bessie Barriscale Jack Livingston Joseph J. Dowling
Cinematography	Charles J. Stumar
Production company	Triangle Film Corporation
Distributed by	Triangle Distributing
Release date	August 20, 1917 (1917-08-20)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Cast

• Bessie Barriscale as Pampy
• Jack Livingston as Donald Luther
• Joseph J. Dowling as Captain Hendrik von der Bloom
• Tom Guise as Rufus Smith
• Howard Hickman as Jack Smith
• Margaret Thompson as Gertrude Van Hoosen
• Don Likes as Fat Boy
• Will H. Bray as Dr. Blaisdell
• J. Frank Burke as Father Nepomuk
• Gertrude Claire as The Mevrouw
• J. H. Gotch as Jacob Hauptmann

Production

Village scenes were filmed on the lot of Triangle Studio in Culver City, California.^[3] The village set was later used for In Slumberland (1917) and the Bessie Love film Wee Lady Betty (1917).^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of Wooden Shoes located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5] In February 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[2]