Thanhouser Company Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Nello was a little boy who lived with his aged grandfather near Antwerp. They were very poor, but because they loved each other so much were happier...

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...

The simple story of a heroic dog that saves the day appealed to audiences (especially with a well-trained animal as attractive and energetic as...

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

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...

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

With her week's wash only half done, Diana drops her work to peruse the Paris fashion magazines. Poring over the beautiful fashions delineated in the...