Movies: Selig Polyscope Company

  • 1910
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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    An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel....

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 1913
    The Flight of the Crow

    The Flight of the Crow (1913)

    The Flight of the Crow

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    Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car....

    The Flight of the Crow
  • 1913
    The Law and the Outlaw

    The Law and the Outlaw (1913)

    The Law and the Outlaw

    51913HD

    Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch owner, one day sees Dakota's display of horsemanship, and th...

    The Law and the Outlaw
  • 1918
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie (1918)

    Little Orphant Annie

    5.31918HD

    Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts...

    Little Orphant Annie
  • 1911
    A Romance of the Rio Grande

    A Romance of the Rio Grande (1911)

    A Romance of the Rio Grande

    01911HD

    The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and supplying it to the Indians....

    A Romance of the Rio Grande
  • 1913
    A Change of Administration

    A Change of Administration (1913)

    A Change of Administration

    01913HD

    The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the change of administration....

    A Change of Administration
  • 1913
    Greater Wealth

    Greater Wealth (1913)

    Greater Wealth

    01913HD

    John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon's only son is a drunken di...

    Greater Wealth
  • 1912
    A War Time Romance

    A War Time Romance (1912)

    A War Time Romance

    01912HD

    Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, was that of Arthur Deming, the young Confederate officer, and his Southern sweetheart, Alice Munroe....

    A War Time Romance
  • 1911
    In Old California When the Gringos Came

    In Old California When the Gringos Came (1911)

    In Old California When the Gringos Came

    01911HD

    In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film...

    In Old California When the Gringos Came
  • 1911
    The Cowboy and the Shrew

    The Cowboy and the Shrew (1911)

    The Cowboy and the Shrew

    01911HD

    Hank Wilson, a good-natured cow puncher, loves a rancher's daughter, and finally musters up courage enough to make known his love. She looks upon the matter as a joke, and coquettishly furnishes him considerable annoyance....

    The Cowboy and the Shrew
  • 1914
    When the Cook Fell Ill

    When the Cook Fell Ill (1914)

    When the Cook Fell Ill

    01914HD

    Patsy, the cook of the "Flying U" ranch, is passionately fond of canned corn. Every time he goes to town to buy supplies for the camp, cases of canned corn head the list. Patsy may forget at times to order a special brand of tobacco for the boys, or ...

    When the Cook Fell Ill
  • 1908
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    4.81908HD

    Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas...

    The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 1914
    When the West Was Young

    When the West Was Young (1914)

    When the West Was Young

    01914HD

    Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds....

    When the West Was Young
  • 1917
    The Heart of Texas Ryan

    The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)

    The Heart of Texas Ryan

    41917HD

    To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raider but then gets kidnapped by his gang of thieves....

    The Heart of Texas Ryan
  • 1914
    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers (1914)

    The Spoilers

    6.21914HD

    The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a specta...

    The Spoilers
  • 1909
    In the Sultan's Power

    In the Sultan's Power (1909)

    In the Sultan's Power

    31909HD

    Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of a seemingly cordial friendship the lady apparently does not r...

    In the Sultan's Power
  • 1911
    The New Superintendent

    The New Superintendent (1911)

    The New Superintendent

    01911HD

    James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough element in the works. Jack Hartway asks for a position, and Mr. Hastings discharges Morley. Hartway is duly installed as the new superintendent, and his fir...

    The New Superintendent
  • 1913
    Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy

    Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy (1913)

    Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy

    01913HD

    Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan....

    Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
  • 1911
    Lost in the Jungle

    Lost in the Jungle (1911)

    Lost in the Jungle

    51911HD

    Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on he...

    Lost in the Jungle
  • 1913
    Juggling with Fate

    Juggling with Fate (1913)

    Juggling with Fate

    01913HD

    Dare Devil Tom Wallace, so called because of his seeming lack of fear, is held up while riding in the stage and robbed by a masked desperado named Morgan. Wallace finds the trail of the robber and follows it to the face of a cliff....

    Juggling with Fate