Herbert Brenon Movies

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The...

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the...

Wilfred of Ivanhoe (King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised,...

To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His...

The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the...

An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Louis Fernando fails to sell a patent upon which he has spent the better part of his life and drowns himself. His orphaned child Marie is adopted by...

Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the...

Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape....

When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teaches him his profession. Years later, Marcel has...

Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire on Wall Street. He becomes acquainted with the...

'Nurse saves captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads counter-attack.' (British Film Catalogue)

Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr....

A silent film directed by Herbert Brenon also known as "The Stronger Passion".