J. Stuart Blackton Movies

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

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class...

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance.

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924...

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. He appeals to Cardinal Wolsey to set aside the...

The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the...

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

After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the...

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled...

A farmer's son, family facing foreclosure, goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins big, he goes back to the country and...

Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I,...

The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.