The best Harry Solter’s movies

Harry Solter

Harry Solter

18/11/1873- 02/03/1920
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Harry Solter’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Harry Solter.
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The Curtain Pole

The Curtain Pole
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1909
  • Character: Mr. Edwards
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

The Renunciation

The Renunciation
4.8/10
  • Release: 19/07/1909
  • Character: Sam Walters
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.

The Slave

The Slave
5.2/10
  • Release: 29/07/1909
  • Character: Deletrius
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.

The Drunkard's Reformation

The Drunkard's Reformation
5.6/10
  • Release: 31/03/1909
  • Character: In the Play
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.

An Awful Moment

An Awful Moment
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1908
  • Character: Judge Mowbray
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).

Mr. Jones at the Ball

Mr. Jones at the Ball
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1908
  • Character: Guest at Ball
Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Lure of the Gown

The Lure of the Gown
4.5/10
  • Release: 15/03/1909
  • Character: Enrico
"Fine feathers make fine birds." and handsome gowns make handsome women, and a handsome woman is the most fascinating thing extant. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the sweetheart of Veronica, a street singer. Enrico is so enraptured at the sight of Isabelle in her resplendent attire that he becomes her abject slave, casting aside the poor, peasant-clad little Italian street singer, who has loved him devotedly. Crushed almost beyond endurance the poor girl stands sobbing at the entrance of the park where the inconsistent lever left her. Her tears attract the attention of a wealthy young couple who happen to pass. In answer to their queries she tells them how contemptibly her sweetheart acted, and all because of the fascinating influence of a gown.

The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth
4.8/10
  • Release: 27/05/1909
  • Character: Tackleton
After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

The Salvation Army Lass

The Salvation Army Lass
5.1/10
  • Release: 11/03/1909
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar- but her faith is real, and strong.

Money Mad

Money Mad
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/12/1908
  • Character: First Villain
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.

Where the Breakers Roar

Where the Breakers Roar
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1908
  • Character: At the Beach
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/11/1908
  • Character: Katharina's Father
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

The Son's Return

The Son's Return
5.4/10
  • Release: 14/06/1909
  • Character: The Employer
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.

A Calamitous Elopement

A Calamitous Elopement
4.5/10
  • Release: 06/08/1908
  • Character: Frank
A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are leaving, a thief discovers their plans, and he decides to turn the situation to his own advantage.

The Sculptor's Nightmare

The Sculptor's Nightmare
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/05/1908
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.

They Would Elope

They Would Elope
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/08/1909
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1908
  • Character: Lieutenant Penrose
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.

The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 18/08/1908
  • Character: Pong Lee
This one-reeler is regarded as a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring.

The Song of the Shirt

The Song of the Shirt
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/11/1908
  • Character: Employer / In Second Restaurant
Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

The Cord of Life

The Cord of Life
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/01/1909
  • Character: On Street
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.

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