Thanhouser Company Movies

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

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

The Thanhouser Company's two-reel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's eponymous novel. “The plot is unusual, and even though none of the familiar...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Long Arm of the Secret Service

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

The rich little boy was seven years old and his kind Mama gave him a birthday party. A number of children were invited to wish him happy returns of...

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...

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...

A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).

Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend,...

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

An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young...

Two young people marry in a Continental village and receive the congratulations of all save the rejected suitor. He bides his time while the couple...

Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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

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

Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod,...

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...

Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.