The best William Elmer’s movies

William Elmer

William Elmer

25/04/1869- 24/02/1945
Today we present the best William Elmer’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best William Elmer’s movies.
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Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/12/1940
  • Character: Neway (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Condemned

Condemned
6.4/10
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.

Carmen

Carmen
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1915
  • Character: Morales
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.

The Girl of the Golden West

The Girl of the Golden West
5.3/10
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…

We Can't Have Everything

We Can't Have Everything
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/07/1918
  • Character: Props
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.

The Road Demon

The Road Demon
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/02/1921
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer. O'Malley is hoping to land a contract with a Japanese firm, if only his car wins the Los Angeles-Phoenix auto race. Hap enters, but O'Malley's driver, Luther McCabe causes the race to be lost. Higgins discovers that McCabe is in league with O'Malley's competition, so for the next race, in Fresno, he takes over when McCabe drops out and wins the race.

The Virginian

The Virginian
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/09/1914
  • Character: Trampas
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.

The House of Darkness

The House of Darkness
6.1/10
  • Release: 10/05/1913
  • Character: Asylum Guard
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.

He Comes Up Smiling

He Comes Up Smiling
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/1918
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist.

The Captive

The Captive
6.4/10
Cecil B. DeMille’s thought-to-be-lost 1915 silent film The Captive, is a found treasure. Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia (Blanche Sweet, The Woman in White), a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos (Gerald Ward, The Warrens of Virginia) and the family farm when older brother Marko (Page Peters, Davy Crockett) goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan (House Peters, Prisoners of the Storm) a captured Turk nobleman now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.

The Foolish Age

The Foolish Age
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/10/1921
  • Character: Cauliflower Jim (as Billy Elmer)

The Ragamuffin

The Ragamuffin
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1916
  • Character: Kelly
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly agrees. As soon as she enters the house, Bob catches her, but then goes back to his bedroom after making her give her word not to take anything. Jenny breaks her promise...

The Ghost Breaker

The Ghost Breaker
4.8/10
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.

The Rose of the Rancho

The Rose of the Rancho
3.4/10
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”

The Honorable Friend

The Honorable Friend
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/08/1916

The Family Skeleton

The Family Skeleton
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1918
  • Character: 'Spider' Doyle

Castles for Two

Castles for Two
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/03/1917
  • Character: Callahan
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.

Playing the Game

Playing the Game
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 22/04/1918
  • Character: Hodges (as Billy Elmer)
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.

The Whipping Boss

The Whipping Boss
  • Release: 09/02/1924
  • Character: Spike (as Billy Elmer)
Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.

Iron to Gold

Iron to Gold
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/03/1922
  • Character: Bat Piper

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