Vintage Classic Films - 1800 to 1950
This list consists of the most early renditions of color films along with the first ever produced Color film released on Home video. From 1800's to the 1950's.
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- DirectorStuart PatonStarsAllen HolubarDan HanlonEdna PendletonA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- DirectorWilfred LucasStarsElmo LincolnEnid MarkeyThomas JeffersonTarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed.
- DirectorDuke WorneStarsBen F. WilsonNeva GerberWilliam DyerCarter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
- DirectorJoseph A. GoldenStarsLeah BairdCharles HutchisonSheldon LewisAlice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsDustin FarnumWinifred KingstonHarry De VereThe story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
- DirectorHelen HolmesPaul HurstJ.P. McGowanStarsHelen HolmesLeo D. MaloneyWilliam BruntonChapter 12 - A Fight for the Franchise: Helen Holmes (Helen Holmes) and Roy Wilson (William Brunton), president of the K and W Railroad, become suspicious of the dealings of Thomas Desmond (J.P. McGowan), the railroad superintendent, with Boss Hogan concerning the railroad company that will be granted the Copper City franchise. Through an open window at Desmond's house, they overhear the plot to double-cross them and give the plot to The Eastern Railroad Company. They see the contract placed in a desk and overhear the scheme to send Wallace Burke (Leo D. Maloney) to Copper City the next day to get Hogan's signature. They make a copy of the contract and place the A and K Railroad on the franchise line. They them secure the services of Lightfingered Tom (Marvin Martin), to pick Burke's coat pocket and switch the contracts. ,
- DirectorE.A. MartinStarsJuanita HansenGeorge ChesebroFrank ClarkPrincess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen) comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander into a village ruled by slave trader Gagga (Hector Dion).
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDonald CrispPauline StarkeLeRoy MasonVikings compete for power and the love of a woman.
- DirectorFrank CapraIrvin WillatStarsJack HoltDorothy RevierRalph GravesTwo sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJacqueline LoganWalter MillerRichard TuckerA Secret Service agent searches the jungle for his missing brother, also an agent. He encounters a young woman there who is also searching, but for her missing father. They encounter a gang of ivory smugglers who hold a prisoner who knows the secrets of the missing people and a lost treasure. The pair are also menaced by a giant gorilla which guards the temple which is the smugglers' lair.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWinnie LightnerChester MorrisSally EilersA night club entertainer loves a gangster.
- DirectorRobert F. HillScott SidneyStarsElmo LincolnLouise LorraineScott PembrokeWhen Jane is abducted by Arab slave traders, Tarzan comes to her rescue, only to see her kidnapped again by Queen La of Opar. To save Jane, Tarzan must battle both the queen's minions and William Clayton, who seeks Tarzan's family title.
- DirectorLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsHarry FoxGrace DarlingAllan MurnaneSerial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter.
- DirectorWray Bartlett PhysiocStarsGrace DarmondNiles WelchHerbert FortierA young woman, who is the daughter of a sea captain, falls in love with a man from a rich family who does not approve of her.
- DirectorJack PrattStarsJ. Frank GlendonPhalba MorganEdward KimballSent by his fireworks manufacturer father to South America to peddle the pyrotechnics, John Arnold, Jr., has his last chance to make good. He finds in Santa Maria a just-completed revolution, the celebration for which provides a ready market for his products. Adventure beckons him further, however, when John falls in love with Zorra Gamorra, the daughter of the deposed president. With the aid of his fireworks, John engineers another revolution that re-installs Zorra's father in the presidency. The celebration that follows requires a large order of fireworks from Arnold, Sr. - thus reinstating Arnold, Jr., in his father's good graces.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGeraldine FarrarRaymond HattonHobart BosworthA WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsShirley MasonJosie MelvilleAl W. FilsonYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- DirectorEdgar LewisStarsMabel Julienne ScottRussell SimpsonHoward HallA barrier stands between Lt. Meade Burrell and Necia, the woman he loves. That barrier is the fact that she's a "half-breed"--half-Indian and half-white, with an Indian mother and John Gale, a white trader, for a father. Although he has proposed marriage to Necia, she releases him from it when she realizes the damage that marrying a half-breed would do to him personally and professionally. One day a man arrives in town with information that could solve everyone's problems.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsHouse PetersJane NovakEdward Peil Sr.In retaliation for an attack on his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the North Woods for safety. Assigned to track Dean down, Sergeant William MacVeigh is closing in on his prey when he meets Isobel drawing a sled that allegedly contains her husband's coffin and, taken by her beauty, he inadvertently allows the couple to escape. An enemy of MacVeigh's, Corporal Bucky Smith, insists that the Sergeant has violated his oath and vows to get Dean himself, forcing MacVeigh to arrest Dean to save Isobel. After he disposes of the Corporal, MacVeigh allows Dean to escape, but later Dean appears at MacVeigh's cabin begging for help for his wife, who is ill in a distant hut. Learning that Blake is not dead, Dean dies and MacVeigh, who is still in love with Isobel, goes to her. Delirious with brain fever, however, she drives him away, accusing him of killing her husband. Years later, after receiving a letter informing him that Isobel has died, MacVeigh travels to Montreal to visit her daughter and there discovers that the woman he loves is alive, and the pair are happily reunited at last.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreIsabel VernonThough mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
- DirectorAndré CalmettesJames KeaneStarsRobert GempFrederick WardeAlbert GardnerRichard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne.
- DirectorEdward JoséStarsPearl WhiteHal FordeFuller MellishIn the blossom time in spring, in the sunny southland, Anabel Lee returned home from the young ladies' finishing academy. Warner Richmond, the favorite of society and beloved by all the maids for miles around, received notice to come to his grandfather's home to stay with him during his last days. Warner did so and on his arrival was warned by his grandfather to forego the society of the fair sex, but Warner one day passed by where Anabel sat reading and to her he was her prince charming. Forced to marry Anabel, Warner insisted on keeping the marriage a secret on account of his grandfather's wishes. Just after the grandfather died, leaving Warner a large fortune, he became enamored with an opera singer of fame. Destroying all records of his marriage to Anabel, he then married the opera singer, but love in this case lasted until she secured all his money. Soon believing her husband dead. Anabel married the sweetheart of her childhood days. No cloud darkened the sky of their happiness until Warner came wandering in his drunken travels to the old countryside again. Attended in his delirium by Anabel's doctor husband, he gives out the story of his life. The doctor returns to find Anabel gone with her child. He follows. Warner in his delirium overturns a lamp and the house burns to the ground with all evidence to clear Anabel's name. But love finds the way.
- DirectorWalter EdwinStarsArthur HoopsRuby HoffmanJohn DavidsonDanny Canavan, the big son of a tough Irish-American blacksmith, is actually not as tough as he looks--he's constantly abused by his wife, his scornful father and his father's employees. One day he is run over by a carriage owned by Rodman Cadbury, the president of an insurance company. Unable to work as a blacksmith anymore--something his wife constantly throws in his face--he gets a job on the subway as a flagman warning traffic of upcoming dynamite blasts. As menial as the job seems at first, it actually begins to change Danny's life.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsDouglas FairbanksNigel De BrulierGeorge SiegmannCardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.