William E. Shay - Movie Mafia

Movies

Shamus O'Brien

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library o...

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The Telephone Girl

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right...

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The Clemenceau Case

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no o...

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The Two Orphans

This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. Th...

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The Soul of Broadway

Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Crai...

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Sweet Memories

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-depa...

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A Daughter of the Gods

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young ...

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The Boy, the Bust and the Bath

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention....

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His Hour of Triumph

Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip D...

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A Cave Man Wooing

George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young...

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Up Against It

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to p...

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The Lighthouse Keeper

Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the ...

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'Tween Two Loves

A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She...

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A Timely Repentance

A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both lo...

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Neptune's Daughter

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was ca...

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The Fall of the Romanoffs

The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema ...

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Sin

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America....

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The Lone Wolf

When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teache...

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Kreutzer Sonata

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather be...

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The Eternal Sin

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married th...

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