Sidney Olcott

Sidney Olcott

Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Actor), 25 (Director), 2 (Writer)

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    From the Manger to the Cross
    An account of the life of Jesus Christ, based on the books of the New Testament. (imdb)
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    Little Old New York
    An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died. (imdb)
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    Monsieur Beaucaire
    When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity. (imdb)
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    Ben Hur
    Ben Hur (1907) - Short Film
    Very first film version of Lew Wallace's best seller. An unauthorised one too which was successfully sued by the right owners. A notorious precedent for copyright reinforcement. (archive.org)
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    A Lad from Old Ireland
    A boy from Ireland comes to America and makes good, but he doesn't forget the poverty he left behind. He returns to rescue his sweetheart just as her family is about to be evicted from their land. (imdb)
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    For Ireland\
    Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms. (imdb)
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    All for Old Ireland
    Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has designs on Eileen, but Myles gives him a beating for his presumption. As a result, Fagin tells Reid that Myles is plotting against the Crown. (imdb)
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    Madame Butterfly
    The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer. (imdb)
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    His Mother
    His Mother (1912) - Short Film
    An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America. (imdb)
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    You Remember Ellen
    Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore. (imdb)
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    Rory O\
    Rory O'More (1911) - Short Film
    Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle. (imdb)
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    The Colleen Bawn
    A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin. (imdb)
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    Poor Little Peppina
    A little girl is kidnapped by the Mafia in revenge for her father's help in capturing one of the mobsters. She is presumed dead, but in reality is spirited away to Italy, where she is raised as the daughter of a kindly couple. When she is betrothed to the cruel padrone, she disguises herself as a boy and stows away to America, where she finds herself once again in the clutches of the mobster who originally kidnapped her. (imdb)
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    Railroad Raiders of \
    Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train.
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    The Claw
    Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin (Claire Windsor), whose infatuation with Major Kinsella (Arthur Edmund Carewe) takes her to Africa where native uprisings and the jealous connivings of Maurice Stair (Norman Kerry) await her.
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    The Darling of the CSA
    Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War. She delivers an important message regarding an attack on a Yankee fort, then infiltrates the fort and turns herself in, only to change into a Union soldier's clothes and escape with more confidential information. The Confederate soldiers love her, and treat her with respect, despite her un-ladylike profession.
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    The Green Goddess
    The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.
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    The Conspiracy of Pontiac
    The story, which is well known to every school child, is taken from Parkman's History and is presented without alteration or embellishment, and in the number of people employed and in the character or the scenic mountings is by long odds the greatest Indian production yet offered under the Kalem trade-mark. It will be remembered that Major Gladwynn, Commandant of Fort Detroit in 1763, had declared his love for a young Indian girl and she had become much attached to him. (imdb)
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    By a Woman\
    Captain Jasper, a Union officer, is sent on a secret service mission to the Confederate headquarters. Safe through the lines Captain Jasper, disguised as a Commissary Supply Agent, meets old friends who are Northern sympathizers. Visiting Confederate headquarters, information is supplied him by an ally. Suspicion is eventually aroused against the Captain and he is arrested. Pamela, a Southern girl with Northern sympathies, decides to aid the Captain's escape. (imdb)
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    Timothy\
    A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.
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    For Love of an Enemy
    A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, with whom he falls in love. The Spy enters into the social life. At a garden party he again meets Hallie and they become better acquainted. Gradually their acquaintance ripens into love. Hallie innocently takes the spy into the Confederate camp where he obtains needed information. (imdb)
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    The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
    The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate headquarters by one of its spies. Nan, a girl frequently employed by the department of the Confederate army, is called to headquarters and instructed to secure the destruction of the enemy's ammunition train just reported. (imdb)
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    Ranson\
    U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a stagecoach with a pair of scissors. And rides out and does so. But the next day, the postmaster, returning from a neighboring town, is also held up and his bodyguard is killed. Ranson is arrested on suspicion and placed on trial. But at the trial suspicion point to Cahill, post trader, and father of Ranson's sweetheart, Mary.
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    The Humming Bird
    A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war, she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
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    Come Back to Erin
    The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he may wed Peggy O'Malley in a style befitting her beauty. Peggy's father, Michael, favors Jerry's suit, but Peggy has a mind of her own, and takes passage on a steamer bound for America. Landing in New York, she fortunately secures a position as a parlor maid in a wealthy home. Peggy attends a dance, where she falls into bad company.
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