A series of misfortunes befalls young Marie-Laure. Her army captain father goes missing in action Read More »
Tag Archives: 1910s
Richard III (1912) André Calmettes, James Keane, Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner
Shakespeare’s tragedy of the hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery Read More »
The Half-Breed (1916) Allan Dwan, Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse
An outcast named Lo Dorman encounters a young woman lost in the woods. Read More »
The Forbidden City (1918) Sidney Franklin, Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Read More »
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin, Francis Carpenter, F.A. Turner, Virginia Lee Corbin
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp was another of Fox’s lavishly produced “Sunset Kiddies” series, wherein most of the principal roles were enacted by children. Read More »
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. Read More »
The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Wadsworth Harris
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. Read More »
Cabiria (1914) Giovanni Pastrone, Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. Read More »
The Trail of the Octopus (1919) Duke Worne, Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, William Dyer
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil’s Trademark! Read More »
In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) Edward S. Curtis, Stanley Hunt, Sarah Constance Smith Hunt, Mrs. George Walkus
In 1911, as part of his massive undertaking, famed Northwest photographer Edward S. Curtis travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to visit the Kwakwaka’wakw. Read More »
Fantômas: The False Magistrate (1914) Louis Feuillade, René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Fantômas has been arrested and is jailed in Brussels, but inspector Juve wants him arrested and sentenced for all his crimes in France. Read More »
Fantomas Against Fantomas (1914) Louis Feuillade, René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas
The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff Read More »
Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed (1913) Louis Feuillade, René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. Read More »
The Good Bad Man (1916) Allan Dwan, Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Pomeroy Cannon
An outlaw calling himself Passin’ Through halts his “evil” ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty. Read More »
Fantomas: The Man in Black (1913) Louis Feuillade, René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Naturally, after his last experience, Inspector Juve winces under such rebuff as the substitution of Valgrand and the escape of Fantomas. Read More »