Sidney Olcott Movies

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The...

Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the enemy of his family had already sunk its claws...

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.

A young East Side Jewish reporter gets into a sticky situation when she finds that her new beau is indicting a banker she owes money to.

A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.

A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with...

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and...

Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years...

A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.

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...

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

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.

Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War. She delivers an important message regarding an...

Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir...

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....

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

The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it...