Browse 113 movies from Thanhouser Film Corporation
John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and photograph the mermaid. The publicity results in the hotel becoming famous, but Ethel eventually discloses the joke to the guests of the hotel in her mermaid suit.
Jul 1910
Young clerk Harry Martin has valuables stolen by the thief Joinville planted on him by that rogue. The cops finding the hot stuff on him arrest Harry and he is sent up the river unjustly. Desperate to prove his innocence, he seizes the chance of escape on a passing hay wagon and returns to town. Trapped at his mother’s house he engineers another daring escape, he is nearly hunted down when Joinville’s conscience finally gets the better of him and he confesses to the crime.
Sep 1910
Jul 1915
Drama about a theatrical manager, deeply in love with his new leading actress, who discovers her secret past after her performance in "Camille" falls short of expectations.
Sep 1915
After learning that her stepfather, John Braun, is a spy, Ruth leaves him and starts out upon a cross-country journey. In her travels, she sees a plane crash to earth and rushes to assist its pilot, John Barker. The two fall in love and are married. In the midst of their honeymoon, war breaks out and John is called to his post, leaving Ruth alone with only the servants to protect her. In John's absence, the enemy invades the countryside, commandeers the Barker house and imprisons Ruth in her room. Meanwhile, John takes leave to search for his wife. Managing to get through the enemy line, he arrives just as Ruth, enraged at the action of the invaders, dynamites the cellar of the house. As the building explodes, Ruth and John escape in his plane.
Sep 1917
Oct 1915
Little Herman, a queer-looking magician, juggles cannon balls, ducks lamps and a variety of other articles in a surprising and terrifying fashion. He even shoots himself out of the mouth of a cannon, and then shoots himself in again. This stunt reminds us of the man who jumped into the bramble bush, but Little Herman is more wonderful even than he.
Jun 1915
The young girl has two devoted suitors. She makes her choice yet manages to remain devoted friends with her former suitor as well. After marriage, the girl and her husband often quarreled. It was not surprising, therefore, that her thoughts turned to "the other man," and in time she believed that she would be much happier with him.
Aug 1912
Oklahoma lawyer Al Jennings, whose father was a famous and respected judge, is enraged at the murder of his brother Ed, shot in the back by two killers. As if that wasn't enough, he finds himself falsely accused of robbery, and while escaping those phony charges he is chased and shot by a posse. Although wounded, he manages to elude the posse but takes his revenge by robbing a country store. It's not long before he has his own outlaw gang, with headquarters at the Spike S Ranch. A local sheriff is determined to capture him, so Al and his brother Frank make plans for one last, big robbery before leaving Oklahoma forever. —[email protected]
Apr 1914
When telegraph operator Dan Boynton is dismissed shortly after his marriage, he and his new bride Alice decide they will take their honeymoon at the road's expense, and in one of its own cars. The train crew, learning of romance, decide to wink at the violation of rules. Dan contrives to make the situation permanent sending a message purportedly from the general manager, ordering the station agent to hold the car on the siding until further orders. When his former boss Bushkirk discovers the situation the couple’s "nerve" makes a great hit with him and he appoints Dan Boynton his chief assistant.
Aug 1915
Planter Middleton of Kentucky has two beautiful daughters, "Tempest," and "Sunshine," because of their different dispositions. "Sunshine" loves Dr. Lacey of New Orleans but is wooed by village postmaster Bill Jeffreys, who she rejects when he proposes. Soon after the Dr. & Sunshine become engaged, he is compelled to return to his home city. During his absence, "Tempest," who loves him, conspires with Bill Jeffreys to intercept the lovers' letters making the pair doubt each other. The Doctor decides to marry "Tempest” while Sunshine is brokenhearted. Just as Tempest and the Doctor are about to be married, the ceremony is interrupted by Jeffreys, who confesses the plot, and the lovers reunited.
Jun 1910
Daphne experienced the high life but realized it was all for nothing. The 'it' girl of the ballroom, courted by a wealthy and persistent admirer, was seeking a man with more substance.
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Forester was made colonel of his regiment, while Maywood became a captain. The men mortgaged their plantations and gave the benefits to the government, which was hard pressed for funds. Colonel Forester was mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, but before he passed away, Captain Maywood promised that he would care for Forester's motherless little girl.
Nov 1912
Nov 1915
A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions. They separate with the wife keeping their young daughter with her. Three years later when the husband is running for Congress he is selected to judge a beautiful baby contest, when he chooses his own child without recognizing her the pair realize how much they have lost and reconcile.
Young lawyer Peter Donaldson tries to achieve fame by defending a man accused of murder, but the case is complicated by his love for a woman who is a witness for the prosecution.
Mar 1915
Jan 1916