"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a m...

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a j...

The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer spac...

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this versio...

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he...

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling g...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch sud...

Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning ...

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against ...
[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leave...

A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less...

This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available inter...

After Eve causes a cataclysmic event that sucks all apples into a dark void, the two surviving appl...

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther an...

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentle...

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo,...

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to a...