Movies: William Garwood

  • 1911
    The Coffin Ship

    The Coffin Ship (1911)

    The Coffin Ship

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    A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck....

    The Coffin Ship
  • 1917
    The Little Brother

    The Little Brother (1917)

    The Little Brother

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    Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers to make money on the street corner. As the result of a chance meeting with Frank Girard, who is interested in the "Big Brother Movement," Jerry is invited to Girard's farm in the country. Later she is ...

    The Little Brother
  • 1912
    Petticoat Camp

    Petticoat Camp (1912)

    Petticoat Camp

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    Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work....

    Petticoat Camp
  • 1913
    Cymbeline

    Cymbeline (1913)

    Cymbeline

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    Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially ...

    Cymbeline
  • 1913
    The Woman Who Did Not Care

    The Woman Who Did Not Care (1913)

    The Woman Who Did Not Care

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    A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life. She accepted his attentions willingly until a young engineer came along and paid court to her. She then dismi...

    The Woman Who Did Not Care
  • 1910
    The Vicar of Wakefield

    The Vicar of Wakefield (1910)

    The Vicar of Wakefield

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    Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of film language and cinematic techniques over the ensuing eight year period....

    The Vicar of Wakefield
  • 1913
    Carmen

    Carmen (1913)

    Carmen

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    A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, a...

    Carmen
  • 1909
    The Cowboy Millionaire

    The Cowboy Millionaire (1909)

    The Cowboy Millionaire

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    Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and ...

    The Cowboy Millionaire
  • 1911
    Lorna Doone

    Lorna Doone (1911)

    Lorna Doone

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    Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protect...

    Lorna Doone
  • 1911
    An Elevator Romance

    An Elevator Romance (1911)

    An Elevator Romance

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    A wealthy, hustling young westerner comes east, and immediately calls up his boyhood chum, now a staid businessman in a New York skyscraper. The westerner is charmed by the sweet voice of the telephone girl who answers his call from the office switch...

    An Elevator Romance
  • 1912
    Under Two Flags

    Under Two Flags (1912)

    Under Two Flags

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    Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa...

    Under Two Flags
  • 1911
    The Railroad Builder

    The Railroad Builder (1911)

    The Railroad Builder

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    The construction of a new railroad, designed to bring prosperity to a section of the country, brings sorrow to one home. An aged invalid finds that his home must give way to progress, as the line is designed to cut through his homestead, which has be...

    The Railroad Builder
  • 1911
    The Mummy

    The Mummy (1911)

    The Mummy

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    An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young Egyptologist and his less than understanding fiancée. This film is presumed lost....

    The Mummy
  • 1911
    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield (1911)

    David Copperfield

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    Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot ...

    David Copperfield
  • 1914
    The Hunchback

    The Hunchback (1914)

    The Hunchback

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    "The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose do...

    The Hunchback
  • 1913
    The Caged Bird

    The Caged Bird (1913)

    The Caged Bird

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    The beautiful young princess was weary of the formality and ceremony that encompassed her. She had read many books and from them had gained the idea that she would be far happier as a simple peasant than as the daughter of a king. Even when it came t...

    The Caged Bird
  • 1913
    The Evidence of the Film

    The Evidence of the Film (1913)

    The Evidence of the Film

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    A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until......

    The Evidence of the Film
  • 1911
    Motoring

    Motoring (1911)

    Motoring

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    A young millionaire, whose hobby is mechanics, takes his newly overhauled car out for a trial spin, and he would have laughed had anybody told him that it was to be the most eventful trip of his life....

    Motoring
  • 1911
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet (1911)

    Romeo and Juliet

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    Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....

    Romeo and Juliet
  • 1912
    The Little Girl Next Door

    The Little Girl Next Door (1912)

    The Little Girl Next Door

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    Helen Randall and Ruth Foster were little tots. The two children lived side by side on one of the fashionable streets in New York City. One day Helen and her parents were starting for the park when the little one suggested that they invite Ruth to go...

    The Little Girl Next Door