Herbert Blaché
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A Prisoner in the Harem
Oct 06, 1913A woman sold as a bride to the local Rajah is saved by her lover and his loyal tiger.
Drama
A Prisoner in the Harem
Oct 06, 1913A woman sold as a bride to the local Rajah is saved by her lover and his loyal tiger.
Drama
The Walk-Offs
Feb 01, 1920After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
Comedy
L'Américanisé
Oct 30, 1912After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
Drama
The Brat
Sep 01, 1919An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.
Drama
Ce crétin de Malec
Sep 01, 1920An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.
Drama
The Calgary Stampede
Nov 01, 1925Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend turns up dead, Molloy is the only suspect!
Western
The Beggar Maid
Sep 25, 1921The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate. The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennyson's poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid. As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting, the young earl sees the application to his own situation.
Drama
The Divorcee
Jan 20, 1919Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.
Drama
The Young Painter
Feb 19, 1922
The Untameable
Sep 09, 1923The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys Walton in the dual role of Joy and her whip-toting, brutal, sadistic alter-ego Edna, and Etta Lee as her faithful Asian lesbian maid.
Drama
A Woman's Fight
Aug 21, 1916Story of a factory worker who is fired because she tries to protect one of her fellow employees from the lusty advances of their boss. She then joins forces with a crook and becomes his mistress. Although she winds up in jail because he stashed some of his stolen goods at her home, she escapes by flirting with the warden and then drugging him.
Crime
Loaded Dice
Feb 10, 1918Richard Gordon's lack of religious conviction prompts him to live a life of crime. When he demands to be included in a scheme to corner the food market, the conspirators agree to accept him as a partner provided that he contribute $100,000 to the operation. In order to obtain the money, Richard blackmails Harry Palmer with the aid of his girl
Drama
Secrets of the Night
Nov 12, 1924Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Drama
Head Winds
Mar 29, 1925
Robin Hood
Aug 21, 1912Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Romance
The Vampire
Aug 09, 1915The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving silent films.
Drama
The Hope
Sep 07, 1920
The Ocean Waif
Nov 02, 1916The Burglar and the Lady
Nov 06, 1914A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.
Crime
The Adventurer
Feb 15, 1917A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked people, she must attempt to reform things, or at least one person.
Drama
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Dec 13, 1912A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked people, she must attempt to reform things, or at least one person.
Drama
A Slave of Satan
Nov 13, 1913A banker's daughter, wearied with the dull routine of her life, becomes an artist's model under an assumed name. Her artist employer falls a victim to her beauty and loves her and she accepts his advances. Finding her faithless, and learning her identity by chance, he reveals all to her father, who drives her from his house. She derives a scanty living from singing in the streets and cheap cafés. She is accidentally found unconscious from weakness, by the artist, who rescues her from her misery.
Drama
The Temptations of Satan
Nov 01, 1914Satan decides to ruin the innocence of ambitious Everygirl , who has a beautiful voice and wishes to pursue a career singing in opera. He thus assumes human form and follows her in order to make sure that she accepts his terms.
Drama
Stronger Than Death
Jan 11, 1920Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
Drama
Satan Junior
Mar 03, 1919Famous playwright Paul Worden decamps to a country bungalow to work on a new play, rehearsing with his leading lady, Marjorie Sinclair, who is staying nearby. Going riding one day to relax, Paul rescues his neighbor, teenager Diana Ardway when her horse runs wild. The pair clash initially, as she does with Marjorie, but after a series of misunderstandings true love triumphs.
Comedy
The Song of the Wage Slave
Oct 04, 1915The Song of the Wage Slave
Oct 04, 1915
Out of the Chorus
Feb 01, 1921Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.
Drama
The Peddler
Jul 02, 1917Drama
Think It Over
Aug 13, 1917Drama
Think It Over
Aug 13, 1917Drama
Behind the Mask
Sep 03, 1917Drama
Dublin Dan
Sep 01, 1912Comedy
Kelly from the Emerald Isle
Jun 03, 1913Comedy
The Fight for Millions
Sep 01, 1913Drama
The Fight for Millions
Sep 01, 1913Drama
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Oct 19, 1914Mystery
The Chimes
Sep 01, 1914Drama
The Million Dollar Robbery
May 01, 1914Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. For 23 chapters/adventures he and his boss's daughter set out to clear his name and catch the real culprit.
Drama
The Million Dollar Robbery
May 01, 1914Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. For 23 chapters/adventures he and his boss's daughter set out to clear his name and catch the real culprit.
Drama
Hubby Does the Washing
Feb 21, 1912Comedy
The Silent Woman
Sep 02, 1918Drama
A Man's World
Jun 24, 1918Drama
The Uplifters
Jun 30, 1919Comedy
