Movies: Selig Polyscope Company

  • 1910
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    5.41910HD

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

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 1914
    Finish

    Finish (1914)

    Finish

    01914HD

    A silent Western short....

    Finish
  • 1914
    Willie

    Willie (1914)

    Willie

    01914HD

    Willie Clark is in love. His girl. Jane Fetherly thinks a great deal of him also. Willie, whose training has made him a home boy and a mama's pet, fears the loud voice and stentorian tones of Jane's father. Jane urges Willie to take the fatal step an...

    Willie
  • 1912
    The Mate of the Alden Bessie

    The Mate of the Alden Bessie (1912)

    The Mate of the Alden Bessie

    41912HD

    The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One ni...

    The Mate of the Alden Bessie
  • 1911
    Shipwrecked

    Shipwrecked (1911)

    Shipwrecked

    41911HD

    Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wante...

    Shipwrecked
  • 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
    Briton and Boer

    Briton and Boer (1909)

    Briton and Boer

    3.51909HD

    The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside Kimberly, S.A. Jobe's family are Boers with all the strange customs and fierce hatreds of this transplanted people, all except his oldest daughter Gretchen. She...

    Briton and Boer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1916
    Some Duel

    Some Duel (1916)

    Some Duel

    01916HD

    Grace, daughter of Jim Jordan, a ranch owner, has just returned from school, and Tom, leader of the Lazy S cowboy outfit, and Centiped Pete, leader of a rival cowboy outfit, fall in love with the girl. They both attire themselves in their best bib an...

    Some Duel
  • 1911
    The Witch of the Everglades

    The Witch of the Everglades (1911)

    The Witch of the Everglades

    41911HD

    White Cloud, the war chief of the Seminoles of the Everglades, in the beginning of the last century, starts a war on the "whites," for the brutal and unprovoked murder of his brother. The first victim, Seth Thomas, a young settler, is killed, and Dor...

    The Witch of the Everglades
  • 1912
    The Wreck of the Vega

    The Wreck of the Vega (1912)

    The Wreck of the Vega

    01912HD

    Five years ago the world was shocked to hear of the sinking of one of the finest and fastest ore boats on the Great Lakes. During one of the worst storms in the memory of sailors this great boat, the Vega, became suddenly lost and almost without warn...

    The Wreck of the Vega
  • 1915
    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915)

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

    01915HD

    Betrayal and duplicity in the deserts of the Pasha before a happy resolution....

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
  • 1909
    The Cowboy Millionaire

    The Cowboy Millionaire (1909)

    The Cowboy Millionaire

    51909HD

    Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and ...

    The Cowboy Millionaire
  • 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
  • 1910
    The Courtship of Miles Standish

    The Courtship of Miles Standish (1910)

    The Courtship of Miles Standish

    01910HD

    A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

    The Courtship of Miles Standish
  • 1913
    A Husband Won by Election

    A Husband Won by Election (1913)

    A Husband Won by Election

    01913HD

    Edna Dusenberry, the charming twenty-year old daughter of Senator Dusenberry, is in love with handsome young Walter Force. John Cartwright, a corrupt politician and candidate for mayor, makes a deal with the Senator whereby he is to receive the hand ...

    A Husband Won by Election
  • 1921
    The Mask

    The Mask (1921)

    The Mask

    01921HD

    The Mask 1921 film...

    The Mask
  • 1917
    The Lad and the Lion

    The Lad and the Lion (1917)

    The Lad and the Lion

    01917HD

    While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift up...

    The Lad and the Lion
  • 1911
    Back to the Primitive

    Back to the Primitive (1911)

    Back to the Primitive

    41911HD

    John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the same ship and is to act as her escort. At the same time telling her he will meet them at Cape Town. Aft...

    Back to the Primitive