Thanhouser Company Movies

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

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...

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

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.

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

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,...

Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl. They took the girl in and cared for her, and as time...

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

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).

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

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

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

In the home of the stalwart young son and his mother, the girl rescued from the sea grows strong again after her fearful exposure. Her...

"In Hidden Valley," Valkyrien is a white goddess who has been captured by savage blacks in South Africa. She is found by a young missionary, played...

When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him...

A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born...

Over the years, an old gardener observes a romance develop between a young boy and girl. 20 years after they break up over a misunderstanding, the...

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...