Maurice Costello Movies

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she does not love. After an accident, she is taken in...

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children....

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.

Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.

Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his...

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is...

After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting...

A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.