Thanhouser Company Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with...

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 Thanhouser Company's two-reel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's eponymous novel. “The plot is unusual, and even though none of the familiar...

The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right...

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

Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken,...

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

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

Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away,...

Film realization of the Biblical story of Joseph, played here by future director James Cruze.

A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.

Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge...

Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show...