Hell Morgan's Girl is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Joseph De Grasse, and starring William Stowell, Dorothy Phillips and Lon Chaney.

[1] The screenplay was written by Ida May Park, based on the Harvey Gates story entitled The Wrong Side of Paradise, which was the film's working title.

Roger Curwell (William Stowell) aspires to be an artist, an ambition at odds with the wishes of his wealthy father (Joseph Girard).

His ex-model Olga had been interested in him because she thought he would some day inherit his father's millions, but when he is cast out penniless, she deserts him.

A tough politician named Sleter Noble (Lon Chaney) is also interested in Lola, but has been rebuffed by her.

The New York Daily Mirror opined: "It is no exaggeration to place Hell Morgan's Girl among the best five-reel melodramatic photoplays of the year.

"[3] Moving Picture World said "We could not recommend it...for exhibition before refined audiences or before children; for while it may be a perfect typification of that hole of vice, the realism of its staging makes it the more unwholesome.

She is coming up like a Fourth-of-July rocket, and if her crude talent is properly developed, she will be a supreme mistress of melodrama."

Variety said "...the scenes depicting life in Frisco just prior to the earthquake rank with the best of that sort of motion picture work.