
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 »
Tag Archives: 1910s
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 »
The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake (1919) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John

In San Francisco, the sportsman Kay Hoog tells to the members of a club that he has found a message Read More »
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 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 »
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 »