The Woman in White
This a fine piece of melodrama done in the style of a crime mystery the lighting and shot angles are fine even in the long wide angle shots,the plot is...
Ernest Warde
Filmography
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King Lear
The King has left his kingdom in the hands of his two power-hungry daughters. Heartbroken over the behavior of his children, he retreats to a cave and his youngest daughter, the only faithful one, brings her armies to his rescue. There is a battle and the army of King Lear and his daughter are...Watch Movie
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The Vicar of Wakefield
After affiliating with Pathé in late 1916, Thanhouser produced only feature-length dramas. In 1917 the studio had a roster of only four stars, none of them a commercial match for the personality-stars created by the publicity machines of other studios. Frederick Warde, like...Watch Movie
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The Woman in White
In its last two years of production Thanhouser concentrated on multi-reel features of high quality. Lloyd Lonergan’s scenarios were the foundation for the attention to quality, whether with original stories or with adaptations like THE WOMAN IN WHITE. Stylistic and technical...Watch Movie
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Silas Marner
Frederick Warde stars as the bent and twisted miser whose life of selfishness is changed by the influence of a child. From the very beginning, Thanhouser had a knack for pictorializing classic plays and novels, especially quaint period stories. The title character, a kindly weaver, is wrongly...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Adaptation / Theatrical / Stage
- Crime / Mystery/Whodunit
- Crime / Transgression / Blackmail
- Crime / Transgression / False Accusation
- Drama / Coming of Age
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Dysfunctional Family
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Political
- Drama / Tragedy
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Silent / Silent Drama
Recent Reviews
Silas Marner
You're quite correct, of course! The initial description was provided by the Thanhouser Company but we have tweaked their text to eliminate the error, accordingly.
Silas Marner
Firstly, this is not Frederick Warde's film debut. He had already appeared in several movie productions, including the long lost early feature film Richard III. Secondly, a great amount of...
King Lear
A superior adaptation of Shakespeare in silent and condensed form. Good use of close-ups that shows intense Victorian Style acting, lavishly expensive clothes and varied sets. I can't believe they...