Blanche Cornwall
Burstup Homes’ Murder Case
A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.
The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston’s favor. He would like his son, Frank, to marry Peggy, but Peggy “is not his style” and “her money is no inducement”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
- 1912
- Drama
The Detective’s Dog
When Kitty’s family adopts a homeless dog they couldn’t guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.
Parson Sue
A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” Of course the boys…
Making an American Citizen
A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- 1912
- Drama
In the Year 2000
A remake for the US market of Alice Guy’s Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
- 1912
- Comedy
God Disposes
A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets. The father comes back and takes the…
- 1912
- Drama
Fra Diavolo
Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
Falling Leaves
It’s early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred’s mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that “when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away,” she interprets the doctor’s words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
- 1912
- Drama
Canned Harmony
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
- 1912
- Comedy
Starting Something
A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their “lime juice.”
- 1911
- Comedy
