James Cruze Movies

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working...

He was a hard-headed old business man and very mercenary, so when he received a letter from a debtor in a little country town asking for more time in...

This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over money matters. A stenographer, Vera, overheats her...

Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl. They took the girl in and cared for her, and as time...

She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.

While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy...

A young mechanic, temporarily residing in a southern city, found that business was slack in his trade, and decided to send his wife to her relations...

A little boy, inmate of an orphan asylum, ran away. He fell in with an itinerant knife grinder. The boy had had no home life and when his companion...

Austin Bevans, a lively car-salesman, suddenly finds himself heir to the Bevans School for Girls. Since Austin feels that acquiring grace and charm...

Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.

Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken,...

Napoleon's Luck Stone is a silent short

Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).

Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he...

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker,...

Dramatic three-reel film based on Wagner's opera of chivalry and spiritual struggle. Wandering minstrel Tannhauser wins the heart of Elizabeth, niece...

Film realization of the Biblical story of Joseph, played here by future director James Cruze.

While Bill Burnham is jailed for drunkenly shooting up the town, he receives a letter saying that his father has died, his sister Janet is about to...

The actor and his wife suddenly found themselves "at liberty" because the manager of their attraction had flitted unexpectedly. They wanted to get...