Allegorical film about peace. A king starts a war, many of the women are against it, people are pressed into service. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1910s
The Mirages AKA Mirazhi (1916) Pyotr Chardynin, Arsenii Bibikov, Tamara Gedevanova, Andrej Gromov
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Read More »
The Captive (1915) Cecil B. DeMille, Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward
With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. Read More »
The Plague in Florence AKA Die Pest in Florenz (1919) Otto Rippert, Theodor Becker, Karl Bernhard, Julietta Brandt
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city’s ruler Read More »
Joan the Woman (1916) Cecil B. DeMille, Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth
John Trent, a World War I British officer, finds an ancient sword in his trench bunker just prior Read More »
A Gun Fightin’ Gentleman (1919) John Ford, Harry Carey, J. Barney Sherry, Kathleen O’Connor
“Cheyenne Harry”, owner of the biggest cattle ranch in his corner of the west Read More »
Sherlock Holmes (1916) Arthur Berthelet, William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain
When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover Read More »
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) Stuart Paton, Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. Read More »
Straight Shooting (1917) John Ford, Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims’ water supply. When Sims’ son Ted goes for water, one of Flint’s men kills him. Read More »
The Marathon (1919) Alfred J. Goulding, Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ Pollard
A beautiful young woman has a number of suitors who would like her hand. Read More »
Bucking Broadway (1917) John Ford, Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells
A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman. Read More »
A Man There Was AKA Terje Vigen (1917) Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Read More »
The Oyster Princess AKA Die Austernprinzessin (1919) Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke
Oyster-king Quaker cannot be impressed anymore. He is so rich that he even has a special butler holding his cigar while he is smoking. Read More »
The Undesirable AKA A tolonc (1915) Michael Curtiz, Lili Berky, Victor Varconi, Mari Jászai
Betty (Lili Berky, Duel For Nothing), a young woman living in the country, is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle Read More »
The Coward (1915) Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Frank Keenan, Charles Ray, Gertrude Claire
Confederate soldier Frank Winslow is terrified of the war and eventually runs away from battle. Read More »