Thanhouser Company Movies

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Henry Dennys, a wealthy Englishman, has two sons who are frequently brought into the company of Edith Danvers, whose father, a retired general, lives...

A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape, and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative.

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...

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

An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young...

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

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