Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1910s
The Outlaw and His Wife AKA Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918) Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love Read More »
The Virginian (1914) Cecil B. DeMille, Dustin Farnum, Jack W. Johnston, Sydney Deane
Wyoming schoolteacher Molly Wood is attracted to a cowboy known as “The Virginian.” 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 »
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 »
L’enfant de Paris (1913) Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée
A series of misfortunes befalls young Marie-Laure. Her army captain father goes missing in action 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 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 »