1911

Film Decades: 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• Aerial Anarchists – directed by Walter R. Booth
• Alkali Ike’s Auto, starring Bronco Billy Anderson
• Les Aventures de Baron de Munchhausen (aka Baron Munchausen), directed by Georges Melies
• The Baby’s Ghost (French/ Lux Film)
• Baron Munchausen’s Dream (French/ Pathe) produced and directed by George Melies
• Baseball and Bloomers – starring William Garwood & Marguerite Snow
• The Battle, directed by D.W. Griffith
• Beneath the Tower Ruins (British-French co-production produced by Charles Urban)
• The Bells, Australian film written and directed by W. J. Lincoln, based on the 1871 play by Leopold Lewis
• The Bewitched Window (French/ Pathe)
• Bill Bumper’s Bargain, starring Franis X. Bushman as Mephistopheles [7]
• Bill Taken for a Ghost (French/ Lux Film) aka Patouillard Fantome, directed by Romeo Bosetti; one of a series of 60 silent films made in France all featuring the comic character Patouillard (the character’s name was changed to “Bill” in the US)
• The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel The Black Arrow
• Blood Vengeance, Italian film directed by Luigi Maggi, starring Antonietta Calderari, based on a story by Gabriele (Cabiria) D’Anunzio
• Brown of Harvard – directed by Colin Campbell,
• The Buddhist Priestess – starring William Garwood, Marguerite Snow, Marie Eline, & Florence La Badie
• By the House That Jack Built (Imp/ Universal) directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
• Cally’s Comet – starring William Garwood
• The Coffin Ship – starring William Garwood
• The Colonel and the King – starring William Garwood, Marie Eline, & William Russell
• Courting Across the Court – starring William Garwood
• The Cowboy and the Lady – Alan Hale Sr.’s film debut
• Curse of the Wandering Minstrel (Walturdaw Films)
• Dandy Dick of Bishopgate, British film directed by Theo Frenkel, shot in the two-color Kinemacolor process
• David Copperfield (Thanhouser) directed by George O. Nichols
• Defence of Sevastopol, Russian film directed by Vasili Goncharov
• The Demon (an Italian/Russian co-production) directed by Giovanni Vitrotti, starring Madame Cemesnova and Mikhail Tamarov, based on a poem by Mikhail Lermonto
• The Devil as a Lawyer (German/ Messter Films, UFA)
• The Devil’s Sonata, Danish film based on a musical work by the 18th-century Italian composer Giuseppe Tarantini, plot is similar to Trilby
• The Diabolical Church Window, directed by Georges Melies
• Dr. Charlie is a Great Surgeon (Eclair Prods.)
• The Dream, directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
• Enoch Arden – directed by D.W. Griffith
• An Evil Power (Selig-Polyscope) written and directed by Francis Boggs, starring Sydney Ayres and Frank Clark
• The Fairy Jewel (Italian film directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro)
• The Fall Of Troy, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
• Faust (British/ Hepworth) directed by Cecil M. Hepworth, starring Hay Plumb and Jack Hulcup (as Mephistopheles)
• Faust and Marguerite (French/ Gaumont) directed by Jean Durand, starring Gaston Modot
• First Indy 500 (First year footage from the auto race. Filmed on May 30, 1911.)
• The Fisherman’s Nightmare (French/ Pathe)
• Flames and Fortune – starring William Garwood & Marie Eline
• For Her Sake – starring William Garwood
• From Death to Life (Rex Films/ Universal) featured a mad scientist
• The Ghost’s Warning (Edison Prods.) directed by Ashley Miller, starring Mary Fuller, Darwin Karr and Marc McDermott
• The Golden Beetle (Italian/ Cines-Kleine) ran 60 minutes
• Greater Love Hath No Man – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Haunted Cafe (German film/ Messter) aka The Bewitched Restaurant, produced by Oskar Messter, starring Henny Porten, featured trick photography effects a la Melies
• The Haunted House (French/ Gaumont)
• The Haunted House (Universal/ Imp) directed by William F. Haddock, starring King Baggo
• Her Crowning Glory – directed by Laurence Trimble
• His Trust – directed by D.W. Griffith
• His Trust Fulfilled – directed by D.W. Griffith. The sequel to Griffith’s earlier 1911 short film “His Trust”
• The Higher Law – directed by George Nichols, starring William Garwood, James Cruze, & William Russell
• The Hunchback (British) directed by A. E. Coleby, starring Edwin J. Collins as the hunchback
• Hypnotism (French/ Lux) starring James Mapelli, based on the novel Trilby
• The Inferno (L’Inferno) (Italian) aka Dante’s Inferno, a big budget spectacular adapted from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy; directed by Francesco Bertolini and Giuseppe De Liguoro, starring Salvatore Anzelmo Papa and Arturo Pirovano
• The Inner Mind (Selig-Polyscope Co.)
• It Is Never Too Late to Mend (Australian film) written and directed by W. J. Lincoln, based on the 1856 Charles Reade novel, later remade in 1937 starring Tod Slaughter
• Jones’ Nightmare; or, The Lobster Still Pursued Him (British/ Acme Films) directed by Fred Rains (Claude Rains’ father) who also starred
• Kitty in Dreamland (British/ Klein-Urban)
• The Legend of the Lake (Italian/ Cines Films) based on the Legend of the Undines
• The Life of a Nun (Danish/ Nordisk) starring Edith Buemann Psilander, possibly the first ever “nunsploitation” film, said to have inspired comic book artist Bob Kane to create a 1940s “Batman” comic book villain called The Monk
• Little Nemo, silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay
• Little Red Riding Hood (Britsh/ C&M Prods.)
• Little Red Riding Hood (Essanay Films) starring Eva Prout
• Little Red Riding Hood (Majestic) starring Mary Pickford
• The Lobster Nightmare (British/ Walturdaw Films) not to be confused with Jones’ Nightmare above.
• The Lonedale Operator – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
• The Love of a Siren, aka Amore di sirena (Italian/ Cines)
• The Man-Monkey (British/ C&M)
• The Masque of the Red Death (Italian/ Ambrosio) based on the famous 1842 story by Edgar Allan Poe; said to have influenced Charles Beaumont when he wrote the screenplay for the 1964 Roger Corman-produced remake
• The Miller and His Child – directed by Walter Friedemann – aka Der Müller und sein Kind – Austria
• The Miser’s Heart – directed by D.W. Griffith
• A Modern Yarn (French/ Pathe)
• The Moonstone (British) produced by Charles Urban, based on the 1868 novel by Wilkie Collins
• The Mummy (French/ Pathe)
• The Mummy (Thanhouser)
• The Mummy (British/ Charles Urban Films)
• The Mysterious Stranger (French/ Eclipse)
• Notre Dame de Paris (French/ Pathe) aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Henri Krauss as Quasimodo and Stacia Mapierkowska as Esmeralda, based on the Victor Hugo novel
• The Odyssey – directed by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, & Giuseppe De Liguoro, starring Giuseppe de Liguoro, Eugenia Tettoni, & Ubaldo Maria Del Colle – aka L’Odissea – Italy
• An Old Time Nightmare (Powers Films) features giant birds
• Parson Sue – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Pasha’s Daughter – starring William Garwood
• The Pied Piper of Hamlin (French/ Pathe)
• The Pied Piper of Hamlin (Thanhouser Prods)
• Princess Clementina – directed by William G.B. Barker, starring H.B. Irving, Alice Young, Dorothea Baird – UK
• Purgatory (Italian/ Helios Films) directed by Giuseppe Berardi (who also stars) and Arturo Busnego; a sequel to Helios’ Inferno (1910)
• Queen of Spades (Italian/ Cines) based on the 1834 story Pikovaya dama by Russian writer Alexander Pushkin – lost
• The Railroad Builder – starring William Garwood, Marguerite Snow, & William Russell
• Rosalie and Spiritisme (French/ Pathe-Lux)
• Satan Defeated, aka Satan Vaincu (French/ Pathe) – lost
• Satan on Mischief Bent (British) produced by Charles Urban
• The Saving of Faust (French/ Pathe)
• The Scarlet Letter – directed by Joseph W. Smiley & George Loane Tucker, starring King Baggot, Lucille Young, & William Robert Daly
• She (Thanhouser) written by Theodore Marston, directed by George Nichols, starring Marguerite Snow, James Cruze; based on the 1886 H. Rider Haggard novel
• The Smuggler – starring William Garwood Florence La Badie, & Harry Benham
• A Spiritualistic Seance – French/ Pathe
• Starting Something – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• Sweet Memories – directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford & King Baggot
• Swords and Hearts, directed by D.W. Griffith
• A Tale of Two Cities – directed by William J. Humphrey, starring Maurice Costello
• That’s Happiness – directed by George Nichols, starring William Garwood & Bertha Blanchard
• Trilby and Svengali (British/ Kinematograph) produced by Charles Urban, directed by Theo Frankel (who also starred in it); filmed in color; based on the 1894 novel Trilby by George Du Maurier
• What Shall We Do with Our Old? – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring W. Chrystie Miller
• Willy the Ghost (French/ Eclair Films) aka Willy Fantome, directed by Joseph Faivre, starring Willy Saunders (who starred in around 70 films all featuring the character “Willy”
• Winsor McCay And His Animated Pictures
• The Witch of Abruzzi (Belgian/ Le Lion Films) this Belgium film was partially shot in France.
• The Witch of Seville (Italian/ Itala Films) aka La Strega de Siviglia
• Won by Wireless – starring William Garwood