Pearl White Movies

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Sally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's wife, to be famous, and to have a child.

Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively...

Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a...

The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline...

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family...

Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.

The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy...

In the hills of Kentucky, Alexander McGivens, known as "the girl in pants," is reared by her father as if she were a boy. When her father, Aaron, is...

Queen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maiden named Tiger's Cub.

One of many Pearl White silent action movie serials. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Serpent Sign; 2. The Cryptic Ring; 3. The Watching Eye; 4. The Vengeance...

Mrs. Owing is fond of fine dresses, but she cannot pay her bills. The dressmakers, calling to collect from her, annoy Mr. Owing at his office....

A 1916 movie serial.

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences

A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.

The story tells of the adventures of an unusual young duke, whose father, the old Grand Duke of Kiev, coveted the wife of Count Dardinilis, his...

Short directed by Joseph A. Golden.

Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clothes....