Thanhouser Company Movies

She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.

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...

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

A rich man who finds that there is nothing in life worth living for, is worse off than is a poor man in similar circumstances, for the poor man may...

Lucile is a 1912 drama film short.

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

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

This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million...

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

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

The police set out to take down a gang of counterfeiters, using every tool they have including police dogs.

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...

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 adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel starring Sherlock Holmes.

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,...

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood,...

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser....

Audrey Munson (a real-life 'perfect' model for numerous Beaux-Arts sculptors) first appeared artistically nude as a sculptor's model, recreating...

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