Those Awful Hats

Those Awful Hats 1909

6.20

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

1909

The Lonely Villa

The Lonely Villa 1909

6.10

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

1909

A Corner in Wheat

A Corner in Wheat 1909

6.20

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

1909

The Sealed Room

The Sealed Room 1909

5.10

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.

1909

The Diabolic Tenant

The Diabolic Tenant 1909

6.80

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

1909

A Strange Meeting

A Strange Meeting 1909

4.50

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.

1909

The Country Doctor

The Country Doctor 1909

6.30

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

1909

The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth 1909

3.90

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

1909

The Golden Louis

The Golden Louis 1909

4.90

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.

1909

The Son's Return

The Son's Return 1909

6.20

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.

1909

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy 1909

5.90

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.

1909

The Light That Came

The Light That Came 1909

5.00

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

1909

The Curtain Pole

The Curtain Pole 1909

4.70

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

1909

The Boy and the Convict

The Boy and the Convict 1909

5.00

A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.

1909

A Trap for Santa Claus

A Trap for Santa Claus 1909

5.60

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

1909

The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period 1909

1

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. Cromwell is charmed by the girl and gives her his signet ring. By chance the child is the daughter of one of the soldiers and gives the death disc to her father, because she thinks it's pretty. The child is returned home to her mother, who learns of her husband's pending execution and of the power of the ring. She rushes to the place of execution and saves her husband by producing the ring.

1909

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe 1909

5.20

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

1909