Thanhouser Company Popular Movie

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gladys Leslie

Family drama of a a brother and sister who take to the stage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cruze

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Warde

A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Garwood

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...

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Cast: Marie Eline

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

Genre: Horror

Cast: James Cruze

A young mechanic, temporarily residing in a southern city, found that business was slack in his trade, and decided to send his wife to her relations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Snow

A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: William Garwood

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Warde

A lonely little girl is befriended by Shep, a neighbor's collie. The girl meets an untimely death, leaving Shep behind.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Helen Badgley

A young heiress was wooed and won by a man whom she believed would make her happy. She told of her engagement to her uncle, who was also her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marguerite Snow

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Benham

To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate. Nixed from a boat...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gladys Hulette

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cruze

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cruze

Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florence La Badie

The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florence La Badie

In the 1850s twin girls fall in love with the same young man, and must struggle with their feelings once he goes off to fight in the Civil War.

Genre: Action

Cast: Madeline Fairbanks

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Audrey Munson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Warde