List of Universal Pictures films (1912–1919)
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1. The Dawn of Netta (1912)
20 min | Short, Drama
The first Universal motion picture released: dying Will Barton has to go to the mountains in search of health and is distracted thinking about leaving his beloved daughter, Netta, behind.
Director: Tom Ricketts | Star: Donald MacDonald
2. Sue (1912)
Short, Drama
Dave Bailey's wife dying, gives her child to the keeping of Sue Barksdale. A year later Sue is in love with Dave, the widower. He is about to declare his love for her when Virginia Dale, a ... See full summary »
3. The Old Doll Maker (1912)
Short, Drama
Claude Petreaux is an old doll maker, who lives with his daughter, Lucille. He has an apprentice, Villon, by name, a worthless man who loves Lucille. The young folks wish to marry, but ... See full summary »
4. Careful Nursing (1912)
10 min | Short, Drama
Mr. Markham gets ill. A hospital nurse is brought to nurse him. He likes being nursed. His four sons all fall in love with the nurse. They all pretend to be sick and take to their beds. Mrs... See full summary »
5. The Transgression of Deacon Jones (1912)
Short, Comedy
The Purity League tries to close down a small-town nickelodeon.
Stars: Alec B. Francis, Barbara Tennant, Richard Sterling, George Larkin
6. An Old-Fashioned Mother (1912)
Short, Drama
Silas and Aunt Chloe reside in a fishing hamlet. They receive a letter from their son, inviting them to come and reside with them, announcing that he has been married several years. They ... See full summary »
7. The Honor of the Family (1912)
Short, Drama
Gerald leaves England to seek his fortune in America and falls in love with Marja.Claude his older brother marks her for his own and they marry before he goes back to England.So when Gerald... See full summary »
Star: Lon Chaney
Votes: 20
8. Gold Is Not All (1913)
22 min | Short, Drama
The great opera singer, against the advice of her physician, insists on singing at one more performance, to earn enough to complete the trust fund she desires to set aside for her child. ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfred Lucas | Stars: King Baggot, Jane Gail, Bess Meredyth, William Cavanaugh
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: James Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Jane Gail
Votes: 771
10. The Battle of Bull Run (1913)
28 min | Short, Drama, History
At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: William Clifford, Victoria Forde, Grace Cunard, Ray Myers
Votes: 14
11. Sally Scraggs: Housemaid (1913)
Short, Comedy, Romance
Doris Lowrey, a famous novelist, in order to get material for her new novel - "Sally Scraggs, Housemaid," leaves her home of luxury and, impersonating a housemaid, seeks and secures a ... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Margarita Fischer, Laura Oakley, 'Snub' Pollard
12. The Gratitude of Wanda (1913)
17 min | Short, Drama
Director: Wallace Reid | Stars: Wallace Reid, Pauline Bush, Arthur Rosson, Jessalyn Van Trump
13. Ivanhoe (I) (1913)
53 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope
Votes: 92
14. The Tramp Dentists (1913)
Comedy, Short
Dusty and Weary, two knights of the road, awake from their haystack Pullman, and having an awful thirst, and no coin, are forced to take a drink from a horse trough. This unexpected blow ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Curtis | Stars: Max Asher, Lee Morris, Eddie Boland, Joseph Singleton
15. Back to Life (I) (1913)
20 min | Short, Drama
The gambler takes his sick wife to the mountains. The doctor has informed him that she will need special care, and he, with rich, red blood in his veins, is disgusted with life and her in ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Pauline Bush, William Worthington, Jessalyn Van Trump
16. Traffic in Souls (1913)
TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama
With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore
Votes: 731 | Gross: $0.43M
17. The Werewolf (1913)
18 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance.
Director: Henry MacRae | Stars: Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp, Phyllis Gordon, Lule Warrenton
Votes: 56
18. The Ruby Circle (1914)
55 min | Drama
At an embassy ball Robert Carlton meets the girl of his dreams. He is attracted by an odd ring she wears, a circle of perfectly matched rubies. The following evening Carlton is jostled by ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Hazel Buckham, Allan Forrest, Harry Carter
19. Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914)
Passed | 300 min | Action
Episode 1: Hugo Loubeque and Sumpter Love are cadets at West Point. Both love the same woman. Loubeque is expelled from the institution for theft from his fellow cadets. The principal ... See full synopsis »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, Harry Schumm, Ernest Shields
Votes: 29
20. Neptune's Daughter (1914)
70 min | Fantasy
The daughter of King Neptune determines to avenge the death of her sister, who was caught in a fishing net laid by the king of a country above the waves. However, she soon falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, William Welsh, Leah Baird
Votes: 58
21. Samson (1914)
60 min | Drama
Manoah and his wife mourn deeply because both have passed the middle-age mark and remain childless. As they become older, their sorrow increases until one day the old wife calls upon the ... See full synopsis »
Director: J. Farrell MacDonald | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Kathleen Kerrigan, George Periolat, Lule Warrenton
Votes: 31
22. The Spy (I) (1914)
Passed | Drama, War
Borrowing shamelessly from "A Tale of Two Cities", an American agent, Harvey Birch (Herbert Rawlinson), exchanges places in prison with Henry Wharton (J. W. Pike'), a condemned British ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Edna Maison, Ella Hall, William Worthington
23. The Trey o' Hearts (1914)
310 min | Adventure
A crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim.
Directors: Wilfred Lucas, Henry MacRae | Stars: Cleo Madison, George Larkin, Edward Sloman, Tom Walsh
Votes: 25
24. Richelieu (1914)
Drama, History, Romance
With the opening of the story Richelieu pardons the Duke of Orleans and all his followers in the Languedoc revolt, save one. The exception is Adrien de Mauprat, because he seized a French ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, William C. Dowlan, Pauline Bush, James Robert Chandler
25. When Bess Got in Wrong (1914)
Comedy, Short
Bess just can't help flirting. This makes Lee sore. Wherever he takes her, it's the same old story; she flirts and they quarrel. The climax came when he takes her to a party. She had ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Bess Meredyth, Lee Moran, Stella Adams
26. The Master Key (1914)
310 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Episode 1: "Gold Madness" Two mining prospectors. James Gallon and his partner, Wilkerson, in a temporary camp, have been searching for gold. Gallon has made a lucky strike and has tried to... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Ella Hall, Harry Carter, Jean Hathaway
Votes: 26
27. The Opened Shutters (1914)
Drama
When the story opens Sylvia Lacey has been left an orphan. Her shiftless father, Sam Lacey, of artistic, but weak nature, left her without money. Her mother had died ten years before. The ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: William Worthington, Frank Lloyd, Herbert Rawlinson, Ann Little
28. Damon and Pythias (1914)
100 min | Drama
After a prologue which shows several aerial views of the Acropolis, the story begins. The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse. Because ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: William Worthington, Herbert Rawlinson, Cleo Madison, Ann Little
Votes: 45
29. The Mysterious Rose (1914)
20 min | Mystery, Short
The son of the District Attorney "has" something on the crooked ward boss, which makes the latter uneasy. Knowing the young man is infatuated with the adventuress, known as "My Lady Raffles... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, John Ford, Harry Schumm
Votes: 33
30. Called Back (II) (1914)
Crime, Drama
The blind husband of an Italian doctor's mad ward 'sees' her brother murdered during a trance.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Charles Rock, George Bellamy
31. When Lizzie Got Her Polish (1914)
Comedy, Short
Lizzie is the daughter of a western ranch owner and an all-around good fellow with the cowboys. She is hampered by none of the conventions of society and her hoydenish tendencies have been ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Victoria Forde, Eddie Lyons, Bess Meredyth, Lee Moran
32. The Heart of Lincoln (1915)
50 min | Drama, History
During the Civil War, a young man joins the Union army. His sweetheart's brother, on the other hand, joins the Confederate forces. During a battle the Confederate is captured and brought to... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, William Quinn, Elmer Morrow
33. Three Bad Men and a Girl (1915)
20 min | Western, Short
The girl is traveling by stage coach to a Western town. The coach is held up and robbed by three desperadoes who make away with the cash of the passengers. When the stage arrives in town, ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, John Ford, Major Paleolagus, Grace Cunard
Votes: 40
34. The Black Box (1915)
195 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
With the help of futuristic technical inventions, a private detective investigates a bizarre murder case involving mysterious messages delivered in a small black box by the killer.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Ann Little, William Worthington, Mark Fenton
Votes: 31
35. Under the Crescent (1915)
Drama
A series of six episodes involving the adventures of an American actress in Old Egypt: #1: The Purple Iris; #2: The Cage of the Golden Bars; #3: In the Shadow of the Pyramids; #4: For the ... See full summary »
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Ola Humphrey, William C. Dowlan, Edward Sloman, Helen Wright
36. The Silent Command (1915)
40 min | Short, Mystery
Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Ella Hall, Harry Carter, Allan Forrest
37. The Broken Coin (1915)
440 min | Adventure, Mystery
Episode 1: "The Broken Coin" Kitty Grey, a reporter, leaves her office for lunch. On her way to the restaurant she sees in an old curiosity shop half of a broken coin, inscribed in Latin. ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, Eddie Polo, Harry Schumm
Votes: 34
38. Conscience (1915)
Drama
George Grant has invented a device which is being financed by his partner, John Benson, who receives an offer of $200,000 for the patent rights of the valuable invention. The offer is ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: William Welsh, Allen Holubar, Curtis Benton, Frances Nelson
39. The Marble Heart (1915)
Drama
Modern sculptor Raphael dreams that in the days of Phydias, about 500 years before Christ, he lived as Phydias the sculptor, and was the friend of Diogenes and made some beautiful statues ... See full summary »
Director: George Lessey | Stars: King Baggot, Jane Fearnley, Frank Smith, Ned Reardon
40. Scandal (1915)
50 min | Drama
The story opens with the male gossips inside the club gazing from the window and making comments on the passers-by. Green, a member of the club, lives in the apartment beneath that of ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, Rupert Julian, Adele Farrington
Votes: 42
41. Garden of Lies (1915)
50 min | Drama
Eleanor Mannering, an American girl living abroad at the home of her cousin, Jessica Mannering, chooses Prince Carl of Noyodna from among her titled suitors and marries him. As they start ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Pratt | Stars: Jane Cowl, William Russell, Philip Hahn, Violet Horner
42. The Earl of Pawtucket (1915)
50 min | Comedy
Director: Harry Myers | Stars: Lawrence D'Orsay, Rosemary Theby, Harry Myers, Flora Mason
43. Heritage (1915)
40 min | Short, Drama
Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ella Hall, Robert Z. Leonard, Mae Talbot, Mark Fenton
44. The Scarlet Sin (1915)
Drama
Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town, against the wishes of his wife Cecelia. Disputes rage about the safety of ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Frank Elliott, Grace Thompson
45. Judy Forgot (1915)
Approved | 50 min | Comedy
A woman who has been in a train wreck and lost her memory is mistaken for a vaudeville star, complete with a husband and several children.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Marie Cahill, Sam Hardy, Belle Daube, Clinton Preston
46. Just Jim (1915)
Passed | Drama
After being released from prison, Jim ( Harry D. Carey ) returns to his Chinatown neighborhood determined to lead a virtuous life. While walking, he hears a woman's cries issuing from a ... See full summary »
Director: O.A.C. Lund | Stars: Harry Carey, Jean Taylor, Albert Edmondson, Olive Carey
47. Mrs. Plum's Pudding (1915)
50 min | Comedy, Western
After Eddie Plum discovers oil on the family ranch, he and his widowed mother move to the city where they meet Lord Burlington, a British fortune hunter. Burlington introduces the Plums to ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Marie Tempest, W. Graham Brown, Eddie Lyons, Violet MacMillan
Votes: 15
48. Jewel (1915)
Approved | 50 min | Drama
Mrs. Forbes, longtime housekeeper at the country mansion of disappointed, embittered aristocrat Mr. Evringham, who is almost a luxurious recluse, is worried: the household has been turned ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Ella Hall, Rupert Julian, Frank Elliott, Hylda Hollis
49. Coral (1915)
Drama
Dan McQuade, an old fisherman, finds a woman and a child cast up by the storm of the night before. The mother is beyond human aid, but the child is still alive and he takes it to his ... See full summary »
Directors: Henry MacRae, Normand McDonald | Stars: Marie Walcamp, Wellington A. Playter, Ruby Cox, Rex De Rosselli
50. A Little Brother of the Rich (1915)
50 min | Drama
While working his way through college, Paul Potter acquires a flock of wealthy friends who encourage him to give up his hometown fiancée, Sylvia Castle, for Muriel Evers, a flirtatious ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, J. Edwin Brown, Hobart Henley
Votes: 19
51. Business Is Business (I) (1915)
60 min | Drama
Newly wealthy Isidore Lechat lives in a castle in the south of France. He believes that business is the most important thing in life, but manages to stay attached to his children, although ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Nat C. Goodwin, Jack Nelson, Maude George, Mlle. Marguerite
52. The Suburban (1915)
Drama
Robert Gordon, wealthy stock owner, has a home near Sheepshead Bay. His son, Donald, loves the lodge-keeper's daughter. Gordon is informed that Sir Ralph Gordon and his sister are to visit ... See full summary »
Director: George Lessey | Stars: King Baggot, William Bailey, Iva Shepard, Florence Malone
53. Under Southern Skies (1915)
50 min | Drama
Lelia Crofton, although she knows there is some mystery concerning her mother, whom she has not seen for years, and about whom she has made many unsuccessful inquiries to her father, Major ... See full summary »
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Clara Beyers, A.H. Busby
54. Judge Not; or the Woman of Mona Diggings (1915)
60 min | Drama
Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Julia Dean, Harry Carter, Harry Carey, Marc B. Robbins
55. The Wolf of Debt (1915)
Drama
Mrs. Stanhope, a widow in embarrassing circumstances, urges her daughter Helen to marry wealthy broker Anthony Stuart, but she refuses. The next day Helen meets millionaire Bruce Marsden at... See full summary »
Director: Jack Harvey | Stars: Violet Mersereau, William Garwood, Fanny Hayes, Brinsley Shaw
56. Fatherhood (1915)
Western
A ranch man saves a baby girl from Indians. Years later he unknowingly finds her and falls in love.
Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Helen Wolcott, Joseph Flores, Jack Hoxie
57. The Woman Who Lied (1915)
Drama, Short
The curtain falls as Cleo finishes her remarkable portrayal of a woman dying after having taken poison, and she is enthusiastically applauded. Gordon, the debonair lover of Cleo, leaves his... See full summary »
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: Mary Fuller, William Heidloff, Edna Hunter, Charles Ogle
58. The Man of Shame (1915)
50 min | Drama, History
Roger and Luvesan have a quarrel over cards and arrange to fight a duel at dawn. In the duel Luvesan loses two fingers. Having been made an outcast by his brother officers he hates Roger ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Myers | Stars: Wilton Lackaye, Harry Myers, Rosemary Theby, Evelyn Dubois
59. The Campbells Are Coming (1915)
40 min | Short, Drama, History
On ascending the throne, after father's death, Nana Sahib is informed that the pension given his father during his rule by Queen Victoria of England is stopped, and he sends his agent, ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Ervin Denecke, Duke Worne
Votes: 20
60. The College Orphan (1915)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Jack Bennett has been leading a gay life; his father has just received a bill from one of the café proprietors for damage committed by his son and others of a party the night before. He ... See full summary »
Director: William C. Dowlan | Stars: Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven, Miss Edwards, Louis Morrison
61. The Long Chance (1915)
60 min | Western
Harley P. Hennage, at the opening of the story, is a gambler about 35 years of age, who spends much of his time at the Red Dog Retreat at Gila Junction. Marie, the town belle, respects ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Frank Keenan, Beryle Broughton, Stella Razeto, Fred Church
62. The Frame Up (1915)
Short, Drama
Everett Sanderson, governor of one of the richest states in the Union, is entering upon a campaign for a second term. He has been prominently identified in prosecuting the trusts and large ... See full summary »
Director: Donald MacDonald
63. Colorado (1915)
50 min | Drama, Western
Frank Austin, a soldier, one day sees Colonel Kinkaid, his superior officer, abusing a little lame newsboy, and in a passion knocks the coward down. He is court-martialed for this and given... See full summary »
Director: Norval MacGregor | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Anna Lehr, Louise Baxter, Carl von Schiller
64. My Old Dutch (1915)
50 min | Drama
A man returns from the colonies in time to save his Cockney parents.
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Albert Chevalier, Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Harry Brett
65. The Supreme Test (1915)
50 min | Drama
A woman whose life is dedicated to helping the poor and needy herself becomes poverty-stricken when her trustee steals all her money.
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Henrietta Crosman, Wyndham Standing, Stella Razeto, Adele Farrington
66. Tainted Money (1915)
50 min | Drama
Director: Ulysses Davis | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Edward Clark, Jack Curtis
67. The White Scar (1915)
50 min | Adventure
Hudson Bay fur trapper Na-Ta-Wan-Gan, falls in love with Janet Mackintosh, the daughter of the factor at the trading post who has been promised to the deceitful Henri Drouet. After stealing... See full summary »
Directors: Hobart Bosworth, Ulysses Davis | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Anna Lehr, Norval MacGregor, Jane Novak
Votes: 24
68. Graft (1915)
Drama
Directors: George Lessey, Richard Stanton | Stars: Hobart Henley, Harry Carey, Jane Novak, Richard Stanton
Votes: 15
69. The Primrose Path (1915)
50 min | Drama
Joan, a country girl, elopes with Ned Templeton, a young artist. They are married and go to Paris. For a time they are happy, then poverty overtakes them and Ned falls ill. Joan cannot make... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Hal Forde, Gladys Hanson, H. Cooper-Willis, Nina Blake
70. Lord John in New York (1915)
Mystery
Lord John, brother of the Marquis of Haslemere, receives word from his friend, Carr Price, in New York, that the latter's dramatization of the detective story written by Lord John will not ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: William Garwood, Stella Razeto, Ogden Crane, Walter Belasco
71. Father and the Boys (1915)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Lemuel Morewood is a wealthy businessman to whom riches bring no pleasure because he has entirely lost the sympathy of his sons, for whom he lives. Billy is society-mad and completely ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Digby Bell, Louise Lovely, Harry Ham, Colin Chase
72. Christmas Memories (1915)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama
After the death of her mother, Little Sunshine, a child of the mountains, is left a penniless orphan. The Rev. Baker, who has been a friend of the girl and her mother, assumes a sort of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Z. Leonard, Ella Hall, Marc B. Robbins, Kingsley Benedict
73. Secret Love (1916)
60 min | Drama
In an English mining town during the 1870s, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jack Curtis, Helen Ware, Dixie Carr, Harry Carey
74. Langdon's Legacy (1916)
50 min | Drama
Jack Langdon is sent by a San Francisco company to manage its Santa Clara mine in Peru. Gov. Juan Maria Barada, who disputes the American claim to the mine, means to gain possession of it ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Bertram Grassby, Lois Wilson, Maude George
75. Love's Pilgrimage to America (1916)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Lulu is the daughter of an English bishop and she loves and is loved by Tom, nephew of the Duke of Bilgewater. Lulu and Tom finally decide to tell their folks that they have become engaged.... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Lulu Glaser, Thomas Keeswald, Sarah Brundage, Henry Norman
76. The Man Inside (1916)
50 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Dana Thornton's niece Eleanor is friendly with Cynthia Carew, a Senator's daughter. After a ball one night, Cynthia finds her father dead in their automobile. While the ball was in progress... See full summary »
Directors: John G. Adolfi, J.S. Schrock | Stars: Edwin Stevens, Tina Marshall, Charles Burbridge, Justina Huff
77. A Soul Enslaved (1916)
50 min | Drama
Tired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, ... See full summary »
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Tom Chatterton, Douglas Gerrard, Lule Warrenton
78. The Path of Happiness (1916)
50 min | Drama
Joan, a child of Nature, resides with her father and Grekko in the woods of northern New York. Grekko has been living with Joan and her father ever since they rescued him years ago from a ... See full summary »
Director: Elaine S. Carrington | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Harry Benham, Sidney Bracey, Florence Crawford
79. A Knight of the Range (1916)
50 min | Western
Unaware of the weakness of Bob Graham's character, Bess Dawson decides to marry him instead of the other cowboy who loves her, Cheyenne Harry. Before the wedding, however, some crooks ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: Harry Carey, Olive Carey, Hoot Gibson, William Canfield
80. Undine (1916)
50 min | Drama, Fantasy
The story begins in the realm of Queen Unda, mistress of the under-seas, surrounded by her nymphs, sylphs and mermaids, who disport themselves on the sands and in the waters of the deep. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Otto | Stars: Ida Schnall, Douglas Gerrard, Edna Maison, Carol Stellson
Votes: 21
81. Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916)
50 min | Drama
Lydia Jansen is a faithful and loving wife, though unknown to her husband, a customs inspector, she has become addicted to smoking opium. In the parlance of the underworld this devil's brew... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Marie Walcamp, Charles Hammond
82. The Sphinx (1916)
50 min | Drama
Unbekownst to each other, Charles Macklin and his widowed father Arthur are having an affair with an exotic dancer called The Sphinx. When both come to see her at the same time, Charles ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Herbert Kelcey, Effie Shannon, Beatrice Noyes, Charles Compton
83. The Wrong Door (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Phillip Borden, a young millionaire owner of a steel foundry, attends a musical comedy and sees Miss Frou Frou, who in private life is Fern Hardy. He immediately loses his heart and ... See full summary »
Director: Carter DeHaven | Stars: Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven, George A. Williams, Ernest Shields
84. The Pipe Dream (1916)
Short
Mrs. Hopeful devotes her time to the Cause, completely overlooking hubby. Things come to a crisis when he tells her that he can't feed on woman's rights. She replies that if he doesn't like... See full summary »
Director: Harry Myers | Stars: Rosemary Theby, Harry Myers, Joseph Bailey, Brinsley Shaw
85. Her Greatest Story (1916)
Short, Drama
Mazie King is "sob sister" on one of the large daily papers, and because of domestic troubles at home her stories have lost their "punch." She is called "on the carpet" by Wharton, the ... See full summary »
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Myrtle Gonzalez, Fred Church, Val Paul, Alfred Allen
86. The Grip of Jealousy (1916)
50 min | Drama
In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in care of one of her sister's slaves.
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Louise Lovely, Lon Chaney, Grace Thompson, Jay Belasco
87. The Lords of High Decision (1916)
50 min | Drama
Colonel Roger Craighill, a Pittsburgh millionaire, is seen presiding at a meeting in the directors' room of the Hercules Bank. He tells them that he intends to crush Gregory, an independent... See full summary »
Director: Jack Harvey | Stars: Cyril Scott, Joseph W. Girard, William Welsh, Joseph Daly
88. The Target (1916)
50 min | Western
Living with his elderly mother in Colorado, lawyer Bill Brent wins the gratitude of many for his professional ability. He marries Marion Moore, an adventuress who leaves him after her ... See full summary »
Director: Norval MacGregor | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Anna Lehr, A. Kammeyer, Robert N. Bradbury
Votes: 16
89. The Strength of the Weak (1916)
50 min | Drama
Pauline D'Arcy just emerging from girlhood, meets and is attracted by a man many years her senior whom she knows by the name of Abbott. Abbott fascinates the inexperienced girl and makes ... See full summary »
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: Mary Fuller, Edwards Davis, Harry Hilliard, Curtis Benton
90. The Pool of Flame (1916)
50 min | Adventure
Terence O'Rourke an adventurer, has been courting Princess Beatrix long enough to ask her to marry him, but he realizes that, with no steady income, he has no right to propose. Then, the ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Harry Carter, Maude George
Votes: 21
91. Autumn (1916)
50 min | Adventure
George Arden and his wife, Jeanette, enter a deserted house in the woods and Jeanette, in a weakened condition is placed by her husband on a straw-covered cot. He then hastens to camp for a... See full synopsis »
Director: O.A.C. Lund | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Lester Stowe, Elizabeth Mudge, Percy Richards
Votes: 21
92. The Yaqui (1916)
50 min | Drama, Western
In Mexico, a poor Yaqui Indian loses his family through the actions of a racist Mexican officer named Martinez.
Director: Lloyd B. Carleton | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Goldie Colwell, Dorothy Clark, Charles H. Hickman
93. Drugged Waters (1916)
50 min | Drama
Clarence Webb, manager of the High Bluff Mineral Springs, has long doped the spring with lithia, sulfur, etc., to attract wealthy patients who imagine that they have aliments. The county ... See full summary »
Director: William C. Dowlan | Stars: E.P. Evers, George Berrell, William C. Dowlan, Gloria Fonda
95. Tangled Hearts (I) (1916)
50 min | Drama
Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, makes a hobby of befriending everybody upon whom he can intrude his good offices. Thus occupied, he neglects his wife considerably, and she in turn ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Louise Lovely, Agnes Vernon, Lon Chaney, Marjorie Ellison
96. The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
112 min | Drama, History, Romance
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Laura Oakley, William Wolbert
Votes: 262
97. Two Men of Sandy Bar (1916)
50 min | Western
John Oakhurst is a chivalrous gambler, and his friendship for Sandy Morton forms the motif of the story. Sandy Morton was given to excessive drink, which through the connivance of the ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd B. Carleton | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jack Curtis, Charles H. Hickman, Emory Johnson
98. John Needham's Double (1916)
Approved | 50 min | Drama
John Needham is the last of a long line of profligate Englishmen and just in the nick of time to save him from beggary, comes word that he has been appointed guardian of Thomas Creighton, ... See full summary »
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Agnes Emerson, Frank Elliott, Walter Belasco
99. The Great Problem (1916)
50 min | Romance, Drama
Bill Carson is sentenced to 12 years for housebreaking. He vows that he will, upon ending his term, have vengeance upon George Devereaux, the prosecuting attorney whose speech swayed the ... See full summary »
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams, Kittens Reichert
100. Her Bitter Cup (1916)
50 min | Drama
Rethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with ... See full summary »
Directors: Joe King, Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Adele Farrington, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn
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