Maurice Schwartz

The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof". (imdb)

Island princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it. (imdb)

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker. (imdb)

This period drama set in 18th century Volhynia stars Maurice Schwartz as Leybke, a handsome Jewish guardsman who, in the end, martyrs himself and saves his brethren. (imdb)

In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter... (imdb)

Little Moritz gets a rifle that shoots little darts from hs father and immediately uses to it break windows and cause messes.

Little Moritz goes safari hunting.

Maurice Schwartz and Sarah Duhamel meet at a party, and he falls instantly in love with her. She doesn't even notice him. He follows her and her escort home, and when she passes a note through her window to what she thinks is the other guy, Schwartz gets the note, and pursues the object of his affection.

Little Moritz has a toothache.

Wimpy Little Moritz needs to toughen up to win Rosalie, but ends up smashing everyone and everything in sight when boxing lessons turn him into a mindless fighting machine.

Little Moritz tires to run away with his beloved Rosalie.

Little Moritz, bearing a letter of introduction to a gentleman with a charming daughter, makes his appearance at the house to ask him for the young lady's hand, but is cruelly turned down by the girl's father, owing to his insignificant size. In despair, Moritz casts about him for some means of increasing his stature, and finally spying a pair of stilts, proceeds to don them, and likewise appears of elongated dimension, and makes his reappearance at the house.

Maurice Schwartz is a hurdy-gurdy man, a player of what is essentially a giant music box who sets up in public places, plays his tune, and is rewarded with small change. In this case, he approaches a man who gives him a large bill to essentially go away. However, Schwartz figures he is paid to play music, and he's going to play his music for the man, pursuing him through a number of increasingly bizarre situations to give him his money's worth.

Maurice Schwartz is the doorman at a restaurant. An elegant customer has him deliver a letter to a young lady, asking her to join him, and promises Schwartz a large tip. Schwartz not only delivers the note. He insists on delivering the lady through a serious of slapstick mishaps.

Maurice Schwartz gets a job in a spice store. As low man on the totem pole, he does the deliveries, at which he is particularly inept. There's also a dog which attacks him and won't let go.

Maurice Schwartz is a soldier somewhere in Africa in front of a painted backdrop. Assigned to guard duty while his mess mates march off, he is frightened by various wild animals. His fellow soldiers make fun of him, until they encounter wild beasts.

Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.