Blue Jeans (1917 film)

Blue Jeans
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Directed byJohn H. Collins
Written byJune Mathis
Charles A. Taylor
Based onBlue Jeans
by Joseph Arthur
CinematographyJohn Arnold
William H. Tuers
Distributed byMetro Pictures
Release date
  • December 10, 1917 (1917-12-10)
Running time
7 reels (approximately 70 minutes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Blue Jeans is a 1917 American silent drama film, based on the 1890 play Blue Jeans by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City to great popularity. The sensation of the play was a dramatic scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, later imitated to the point of cliché.

Prints survive at several archives including the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.