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.

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

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...

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...

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...

This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.

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...

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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,...

A painter in New York City discovers that he has inherited a harem. Since he's already married and his wife would definitely not approve, he must...

Two boys from Labrador, Canada, visit their aunt in Westcheser, New York. Although it's in the middle of a cold winter in New York, the nephews from...

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...

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

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

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...

Upon the death of his grandfather, little George IV of Saxony ascend the throne at the age of seven. His reign, however, is a short one, as a...

An adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel starring Sherlock Holmes.

The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a...