Charles Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde in pre-Revolutionary France Read More »
Tag Archives: 1910s
The Italian (1915) Reginald Barker, George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. Read More »
The Dragon Painter (1919) William Worthington, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr.
Tatsu is a slightly delusional painter who lives in the wilderness. Read More »
Children of Eve (1915) John H. Collins, Viola Dana, Robert Conness, Tom Blake
Young Henry Clay Madison, a clerk, falls in love with Flossy Wilson, a prostitute from New York’s East Side. Read More »
The Devil’s Needle (1916) Chester Withey, Tully Marshall, Norma Talmadge, Marguerite Marsh
Wynne Mortimer, a pampered society girl and daughter of William Mortimer Read More »
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) George Irving, John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl. Read More »
I Accuse / J’accuse (1919) Abel Gance, Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife Read More »
Traffic in Souls (1913) George Loane Tucker, Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner
An early social commentary on the New York sex trade, this film attempts to sensationalize prostitution Read More »
Civilization (1915) Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Howard C. Hickman, Enid Markey, Lola May
Allegorical film about peace. A king starts a war, many of the women are against it, people are pressed into service. Read More »
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 »