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An adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel starring Sherlock Holmes.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been...

A lawyer is given the execution of a will, which bequeaths to the child of a disinherited son a large fortune. The disinherited son is now dead. The...

A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck.

With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of...

A truncated version of Wilkie Collins' popular mystery story.

Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.

Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie...

During his daily duties, Casey the Cop rescues a woman who's soon his sweetheart. Later, she learns from her banker uncle that her inheritance has...

A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The...

A lonely little girl is befriended by Shep, a neighbor's collie. The girl meets an untimely death, leaving Shep behind.

Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of...

The head waiter was thoroughly impressed with his own importance and he ruled the fashionable restaurant, where he was employed, with a rod of iron....

In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who...

In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, enchanted forests grew and mythical creatures lived among us.

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working...

Dramatic three-reel film based on Wagner's opera of chivalry and spiritual struggle. Wandering minstrel Tannhauser wins the heart of Elizabeth, niece...