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.

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice...

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

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...

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...

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

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...

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...

An innocent man is accused of murdering his aunt.

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