Maurice Costello Movies

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.

A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discovery of a treasure cave may be the key to freeing...

Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three and she is engaged to be married to a fine young...

A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing father.

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.

This short features clips from silent films (mostly unidentified) of the 1910's, accompanied by humorous commentary. Highlighted are early...

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy.

An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important...

Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets...

A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her...

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is...

Treasonous courtiers plot to assassinate Cardinal Richelieu and overthrow King Louis XIII, manipulating Chevalier DeMauprat into joining the scheme....

Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she has that sweetness and calmness of disposition,...

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the...

Harry Burton's sister and her husband are suddenly called away for a few days on business and telegraph him to come to their home and take care of...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Jovial and big-hearted, Jim Brice, of the Howard Detective Agency, is sent to trap bribetakers in a nearby city.