Sidney Olcott Movies

  • 1911
    A Sawmill Hero

    A Sawmill Hero

    A Sawmill Hero

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    Jim Hemminway went to college, but did not make good. He had a fine time, but flunked in his studies. His father, displeased with Jim's college...

    A Sawmill Hero
  • 1925
    Not So Long Ago

    Not So Long Ago

    Not So Long Ago

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    Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she...

    Not So Long Ago
  • 1911
    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

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    A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he...

    The Colleen Bawn
  • 1922
    Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

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    Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart....

    Timothy's Quest
  • 1924
    The Humming Bird

    The Humming Bird

    The Humming Bird

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    A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.

    The Humming Bird
  • 1911
    Rory O'More

    Rory O'More

    Rory O'More

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    Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures...

    Rory O'More
  • 1911
    For Love of an Enemy

    For Love of an Enemy

    For Love of an Enemy

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    A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, with whom he falls in love. The Spy enters into the...

    For Love of an Enemy
  • 1908
    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

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    "The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with...

    The Scarlet Letter
  • 1916
    The Innocent Lie

    The Innocent Lie

    The Innocent Lie

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    Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named...

    The Innocent Lie
  • 1908
    Evangeline

    Evangeline

    Evangeline

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    About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced...

    Evangeline
  • 1909
    The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

    The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

    The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

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    The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the aid of her boyfriend, to deliver a message to the...

    The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War
  • 1927
    The Claw

    The Claw

    The Claw

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    Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where...

    The Claw
  • 1915
    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly

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    The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.

    Madame Butterfly
  • 1912
    Captured by Bedouins

    Captured by Bedouins

    Captured by Bedouins

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    An American officer disguises himself as an Arab in order to rescue an American woman kidnapped by Arab tribesmen.

    Captured by Bedouins
  • 1925
    The Best People

    The Best People

    The Best People

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    Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...

    The Best People
  • 1910
    The Stepmother

    The Stepmother

    The Stepmother

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    The Stepmother
  • 1911
    The Little Soldier of ’64

    The Little Soldier of ’64

    The Little Soldier of ’64

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    The Little Soldier of ’64
  • 1916
    The Smugglers

    The Smugglers

    The Smugglers

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    While honeymooning in Paris, wealthy John Battleby Watts is persuaded to purchase a $20,000 necklace for his capricious young wife. When the jeweler...

    The Smugglers
  • 1912
    The Little Gluers

    The Little Gluers

    The Little Gluers

    01912HD

    The Kerry Gow is a 1912 short

    The Little Gluers
  • 1916
    Diplomacy

    Diplomacy

    Diplomacy

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    The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's...

    Diplomacy