Frederick Warde Movies

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

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

The Thanhouser Co. has reissued a number of its surviving films on video. FIRES OF YOUTH existed at around 52 minutes in its original release. A...

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

"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe"...

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance.

Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the...

A young Russian woman escapes persecution in her country and makes her way to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she meets an American...