1913

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)

• Addio giovinezza!
• The Adventures of Kathlyn, (serial), starring Kathlyn Williams
• American Born – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Sydney Ayres, Harry Van Meter, Charles Cummings, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lester, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich
• Article 47, L – starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, Howard Davies, Ethel Jewett, & Ernest Joy
• Antony and Cleopatra – directed by Enrico Guazzoni, starring Gianna Terribili-Gonzales, Amleto Novelli, & Ignazio Lupi – aka Marcantonio e Cleopatra – Italy
• Arizona – directed by Augustus Thomas, starring Cyril Scott & Gail Kane – lost
• At Midnight – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Harry Van Meter, Violet Neitz, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich
• Atlantis, directed by August Blom, starring Olaf Fønss & Ida Orloff – first Danish feature film
• The Bangville Police – directed by Henry Lehrman, starring Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, & the Keystone Cops – short
• Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life – Directed by and starring Mack Sennett, with Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, The Keystone Cops, & American race car driver Barney Oldfield – short
• The Bartered Bride
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Mae Marsh & Lillian Gish
• The Battle of Gettysburg – directed by Charles Giblyn & Thomas H. Ince – starring Willard Mack & Charles K. French
• Beautiful Bismark – starring William Garwood – short
• Breaking into the Big League – Harry Millarde & Marguerite Courtot – short – lost
• The Caged Bird – starring William Garwood & Marguerite Snow – short
• Calamity Anne’s Beauty – directed by Allan Dawn, starring Louise Lester, Charlotte Burton, J. Warren Kerrigan, & Phyllis Gordon – short
• Calamity Anne’s Dream – directed by Allan Dwan starring Louise Lester, Harry von Meter, Dorothy Eliason Jacques Jaccard, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich – short
• Calamity Anne’s Inheritance – directed by Allan Dwan, starring Louise Lester, J. Warren Kerrigan, & Charlotte Burton – short
• Calamity Anne’s Vanity – directed by Allan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton & Louise Lester
• Calamity Anne, Heroine – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Louise Lester, Charlotte Burton, J. Warren Kerrigan, & Jack Richardson
• Caprice – directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Mary Pickford & Owen Moore – lost
• Captive Souls – directed by Michael Curtiz
• The Cub Reporter’s Temptation – starring Earle Foxe & Alice Joyce
• David Copperfield – directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Alma Taylor & Reginald Sheffield
• David Garrick – directed by Leedham Bantock, starring Seymour Hicks & Ellaline Terriss
• Death’s Marathon – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore
• A Desperate Chance – directed by Kenean Buel, starring Earle Foxe & Alice Hollister
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – directed by Herbert Brenon, starring King Baggot, Jane Gail, Matt B. Snyder, & Howard Crampton
• The Egyptian Mummy (Kalem Films) horror-comedy starring Ruth Roland
• Eighty Million Women Want -?
• L’Enfant de Paris
• Evidence of the Film – directed by Lawrence Marston & Edwin Thanhouser, starring William Garwood
• The Face at the Window – starring Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle, & Stuart Holmes
• The Fire Coward – starring Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle, Stuart Holmes, & James B. Ross
• The Flirt and the Bandit – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring R.D. Armstrong, Charlotte Burton, Ed Coxen, George Field, James Harrison, & Chester Withey – short
• For Her Boy’s Sake – starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, James Cruze, William Russell, & Marguerite Snow – short
• For the Crown – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Charlotte Burton, Helen Armstrong, J. Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, George Periolat, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich – short
• For the Flag – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, J. Warren Kerrigan, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich – short
• For the Peace of Bear Valley – directed by Frank E. Montgomery, starring Harry Van Meter & Mona Darkfeather
• A Forest Romance – directed by Frank Montgomery, starring Harry von Meter & Mona Darkfeather
• The Game Warden – starring Earle Foxe, Irene Boyle, & Stuart Holmes.
• The Girl and the Greaser – directed by Allan Dwan, starring Charlotte Burton, J. Warren Kerrigan, Louise Lester, George Periolat, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich – short
• The Grasshopper and the Ant
• The Greater Love – directed by Allan Dwan, starring Charlotte Burton and Mabel Brown, & Edward Coxen
• The Gusher – directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Charles Inslee, and The Keystone Cops
• Hamlet – directed by Hay Plumb, starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot, & Walter Ringham
• The Haunted House – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Julius Frankenburg, Harry Van Meter, Vivian Rich, & Jack Richardson
• The Heart of a Fool – starring William Garwood
• Her Big Story – directed by Allan Dwan starring, J. Warren Kerrigan, Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, & Jack Richardson
• Her Gallant Knights – starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, James Cruze, Florence La Badie, & Frank Urson
• Hinemoa – directed by by Gaston Méliès – France/New Zealand
• His Neighbor’s Wife – directed by Edwin S. Porter, starring Victorian actress and celebrity Lillie Langtry in her only feature screen appearance
• His Wife’s Child – directed by Harry Solter, starring Earle Foxe, Florence Lawrence, & Matt Moore
• The House in the Tree – written by Lloyd Lonergan, starring William Garwood & Billie Bennett
• The House of Darkness – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish & Lionel Barrymore
• The Idol of Bonanza Camp – starring Harry Van Meter, Alexander Gaden, & Edna Maison
• In the Bishop’s Carriage – directed by
• J. Searle Dawley & Edwin S. Porter, starring Mary Pickford – lost
• In the Firelight – directed by Thomas Ricketts, starring Charlotte Burton, William Bertram, Ed Coxen, & George Field
• In the Mountains of Virginia – directed by G.P. Hamilton, starring Harry Van Meter, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lester, Charles Morrison, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich
• The Influence of a Child – starring Noah Beery, Marie Falls, David Galley, Adelaide Lawrence, & Stephen Purdee
• Ingeborg Holm – directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Hilda Borgström – aka Margaret Day – Sweden – once described as the first “realistic” feature film
• Ivanhoe – directed by Herbert Brenon, starring King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope, & Walter Craven
• Justice of the Wild – directed by Frank E. Montgomery, starring Harry Van Meter, Mona Darkfeather, & Jack Messick
• A Lady of Quality – directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Cissy Loftus – lost
• The Lady Killer – starring William Garwood, Victory Bateman, Florence Crawford, Howard Davies, Lamar Johnstone, & Anne Drew
• The Last Days of Pompeii, directed by Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi – one of the early blockbusters in cinema and feature films
• Mabel’s Awful Mistakes, starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett
• Mabel’s Dramatic Career, starring Mack Sennett, Ford Sterling, and The Keystone Cops; contains early usage of film-within-a-film
• Mabel’s New Hero, directed by Mack Sennett, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, and The Keystone Cops
• Matrimony’s Speed Limit – directed by Alice Guy-Blanché, starring Fraunie Fraunholz & Marian Swayne
• The Mirror – directed by Anthony O’Sullivan, starring Henry B. Walthall
• A Mix-Up in Pedigrees – starring William Garwood & Francelia Billington
• Moondyne – directed by W.J. Lincoln, starring George Bryant, Godfrey Cass, & Roy Redgrave
• The Mothering Heart – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
• Mrs. Carter’s Campaign – directed by Tom Ricketts, starring Charlotte Burton
• My Husband’s Getting Married – directed by Michael Curtiz
• The New Conductor
• The Night Before Christmas – directed by Ladislas Starevich, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Obolenskaya, Lidiya Tridenskaya, & P. Lopukhin – aka Ночь передъ Рождествомъ, Noch pered Rozhdestvom – Russian Empire
• Nursery Favorites
• The Oath of Pierre – directed by Sydney Ayres, starring William Garwood & Charlotte Burton
• The Other – directed by Max Mack, starring Albert Bassermann, Emmerich Hanus, & Nelly Ridon – aka Der Andere – Germany
• The Oath of Tsuru San – starring William Garwood & Tsuru Aoki
• Our Wives – directed by James Lackaye, starring Harry T. Morey & Louise Beaudet
• Personal Magnetism – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Sydney Ayres, Julius Frankenberg, Harry Van Meter, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lovely, Jack Richardson, & Vivian Rich
• The Pit and the Pendulum – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, starring Darwin Karr, Fraunie Fraunholz, & Blanche Cornwall
• The Proof of the Man – starring Alexander Gaden, Harry von Meter, & Edna Maison
• The Pursuit of the Smugglers – directed by J. P. McGowan, starring Earle Foxe, James Vincent, Irene Boyle, & Stuart Holmes
• Quicksands – directed by Allan Dwan, starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Charlotte Burton, Vivian Rich, George Periolat, Jack Richardson, Louise Lester, & Charles Morrison
• Quo Vadis? – directed by Enrico Guazzoni – one of the earliest feature films – Italy
• Raja Harishchandra – directed by Dadasaheb Phalke – often listed as the first Indian feature film
• The Reformers, or the Lost Art of Minding One’s Own Business – directed by D.W. Griffith
• Rick’s Redemption – starring William Garwood & Muriel Ostriche
• The Rose of San Juan – directed by and starring Sydney Ayres, Charlotte Burton, & Louise Lester
• Sapho – directed by Lucius Henderson, starring Florence Roberts & Shelley Hull
• A Sawmill Hazard – directed by Kenean Buel, starring Alice Hollister, Earle Foxe, Helen Lindroth, Robert G. Vignola, & Miriam Cooper
• Scrooge – directed by Leedham Bantock, starring Seymour Hicks, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock, J. C. Buckstone, Dorothy Buckstone, Leonard Calvert, Osborne Adair, Adela Measor, & Ellaline Terriss
• The Sea Wolf – directed by and starring Hobart Bosworth, with Herbert Rawlinson – based on the novel by Jack London – lost
• The Scimitar of the Prophet – directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Earle Foxe & Alice Hollister
• Shadows of the Moulin Rouge – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, starring Fraunie Fraunholz, Claire Whitney, & Joseph Levering
• The Shoemaker and the Doll – starring William Garwood
• The Shriner’s Daughter – directed by Thomas Ricketts, starring Charlotte Burton, Violet Neitz, Helen Armstrong , William Bertram, Edith Borella, Ed Coxen, Reaves Eason, George Field, Winifred Greenwood, Ida Lewis, Nina Richdale, & William Tedmarsh
• The Sire of Vincigliata – directed by and starring Alfredo Robert – aka Il sire di Vincigliata – Italy
• Some Fools There Were – directed by Lucius J. Henderson, starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Jean Darnell, Florence La Badie, & William Russell
• The Speed Kings – directed by Wilfred Lucas, starring Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling and American race car drivers Teddy Tetzlaff, Earl Cooper and Barney Oldfield.
• The Speed Queen – starring Mabel Normand
• The Spender – directed by Harry Solter, starring Earle Foxe, Florence Lawrence & Matt Moore
• The Student of Prague – directed by Stellan Rye, starring Paul Wegener – aka Der Student von Prag – German
• Suspense – directed by and starring Lois Weber, with Val Paul – contains early usage of split-screen
• The Tale of the Ticker – directed by Allan Dwan, starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Vivian Rich, George Periolat, & Charlotte Burton
• Through the Neighbor’s Window – directed by Edward Coxen, starring Charlotte Burton, Edith Borella, Jean Durrell, Robert Grey, & Billie West
• Through the Sluice Gates – directed by John G. Adolfi, starring William Garwood & Belle Bennett
• Traffic in Souls – directed by George Loane Tucker, starring Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, & Matt Moore – one of the earliest American feature films
• Transported – directed by W.J. Lincoln, starring Roy Redgrave – lost
• Trapped in a Forest Fire – directed by Gilbert P. Hamilton, starring Charlotte Burton, Sydney Ayres, Jacques Jaccard, Violt Neitz, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson, Vivian Rich, & Harry von Meter
• Truth in the Wilderness – directed by Lorimer Johnston, starring Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, J. Warren Kerrigan, Jack Richardson, Lillian Leighton, & Vivian Rich
• Twilight of a Woman’s Soul – directed by Yevgeni Bauer – aka Сумерки женской души – Russian Empire
• Unto the Third Generation – directed by Harry Solter, starring Earle Foxe, Florence Lawrence, & Matt Moore
• The Unwelcome Guest – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• Wamba A Child of the Jungle – directed by Colin Campbell, starring Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton, & Eugenie Besserer
• The Werewolf – directed by Henry MacRae, starring Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp, Phyllis Gordon, Lule Warrenton, Sherman Bainbridge, & William Clifford – lost
• When Lincoln Paid – directed by and starring Francis Ford
• While There’s Life – starring Charlotte Burton, Jean Durrell, George Field, Robert Grey, & Billie West
• Woman’s Honor – directed by Alan Dwan starring Charlotte Burton, Louise Lester, J. Warren Kerrigan, & Jack Richardson
• Zhuangzi Tests His Wife – directed by Li Minwei – the earliest feature film of Hong Kong cinema