Thanhouser Company Movies

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

Young Bernick and Johan Tonnesen are close friends, living in Norway. Bernick is engaged to marry Johan's sister, who is an heiress. He is simply...

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

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

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...

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

A dapper sergeant in the army won the love of a pretty young stenographer, and they had planned that as soon as his term of enlistment was up he...

When the two little daughters of a young widower are told that he is preparing to bring up to the house to see them, a young lady who is to be their...

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

A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly...

A young lord elopes with an employee's daughter. The visit of a lady to her home causes the young wife to leave her husband. Years later the peer...

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

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

A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life. She...

A young man, a "City Chap," decided to spend his vacation in the country, and made a profound impression upon the villagers, who were honored by...

Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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...

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

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

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...