Carl Laemmle Movies

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.

A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The...

A young man is mistaken for his boss.

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any matches, turns to selling reducing machines for a...

The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch...

A lost film. Paula, the fisher-maid is asked by Ambrose Fenton to be his wife; she consents, and tells her father. The honest old fisherman is...

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned...

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....

In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after...

A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and...

Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl unhappy with life in her new home, the economical...

Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.

Of the over 30 one-reelers Mary Pickford made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Motion Pictures Company, A Manly Man is one of few that...

A lost film. George Dupont, a young farmer, is living with his parents on the farm, while his sweetheart, Sadie Allen, resides on an adjoining farm....