Movies: Pearl White

The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her char...

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery ha...

A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz....

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s....

Short directed by Joseph A. Golden....

Desperate because a wealthy man has reduced her father to thievery, Rhoda agrees to rob the poor box of the church, although she finds the act abhorrent....

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind. With feature films still rare, the programme was...

Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand, Elaine enlists the aid of Craig Kennedy to unmas...

Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war....

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Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episodes are believed to be lost....

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A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft....

The story tells of the adventures of an unusual young duke, whose father, the old Grand Duke of Kiev, coveted the wife of Count Dardinilis, his colonel of Huzzars; of the old Grand Duke's plot to get her for himself; of her accidental death at the ha...

Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper....

Pearl White as a sleepwalking jewel thief....

Terreur (Terror) is historically significant as Pearl White's last film....

Silent film comedy drama.....

A silent action movie serial....

A 1916 movie serial....