Cruel, Cruel Love
Classic and amazing Charlie Chaplin. I love old LA and the horse-drawn ambulance! Bet a lot of folks didn't survive the trip to the hospital!
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Cinderella
An elaborately produced version of the well known fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham. Although in-camera trick photography is important for the story, it is rather conventional, having been introduced over ten years earlier by French filmmaker Georges Méliès....Start your free trial to watch
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The Cry of the Children
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN is the most famous and best documented of all Thanhouser films. In its day it was recognized as one of the most important expressions of the pre-World War One reform movement, in particular child labor. Perhaps because the uncompromising content drew all the attention, the film was...Start your free trial to watch
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Nicholas Nickleby
With THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and DAVID COPPERFIELD, both released in 1911, and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film. Under one-man story department Lloyd Lonergan, with regular scenarist contributions by Gertrude Thanhouser,...Start your free trial to watch
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She
This sensational popular story was one of three Haggard novels filmed by Thanhouser. It has many of the elements found in the not-yet-invented adventure/fantasy serial genre. Thanhouser’s expertise in location work, costume fantasy, and elaborate storytelling pay off in in SHE, the studio’s first single-release two-reel...Start your free trial to watch
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A Film Johnnie
The Tramp visits a nickelodeon and falls in love with the pretty "Keystone Girl" (Virginia Kirtley) he sees on the screen. Physically ejected from the nickelodeon for his unruly behavior, he makes his way to the Keystone studios and causes chaos among the many productions. A local fire causes the Keystone crew to take their...Start your free trial to watch
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His Favorite Pastime
Charlie's favorite pastime is drinking at the local tavern. The drunken tramp follows an attractive young lady (Peggy Pearce) to her home where her outraged husband (with whom Charlie has had an altercation earlier at the bar) roughs him up before tossing him out on the street. This film features actors...Start your free trial to watch
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Cruel, Cruel Love
Charles Chaplin, dressed in a top hat and frock coat and sporting a large moustache, plays a gentleman of means in this unusual comedy. The gentleman is a happy and attentive lover until his fiancee (Minta Durfee) ends their engagement after she believes she has caught him in a compromising situation with...Start your free trial to watch
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The Star Boarder
Charlie (Charles Chaplin), as the favorite of the landlady (Minta Durfee), enjoys more of her attention than her husband (Edgar Kennedy) and small son (Gordon Griffith). The mischievous boy secretly records various compromising situations with his box camera and creates chaos when he displays them in a...Start your free trial to watch
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Recent Reviews
Cinderella
Nicely done for 1911 and some of the acting is surprisingly low key. Lavish production values.
The Cry of the Children
Grim, helped exposed the horror and cruelty of child labor.
Cruel, Cruel Love
hilarious
Cruel, Cruel Love
I've never seen this film before , since i was a kid always watch chaplin 's many film but this one is rarely seen.