Selig Polyscope Company Movies

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.

John Dough gives his assistance in the celebration of the Fourth. No end of trouble results from the invasion of his peaceful rest by the...

Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the...

Slim Higgins bears the reputation of a hard character out in the west. He is placarded as a desperate fighter, who is quick in drawing his...

John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure...

Sam Long leaves his invalid wife to seek work in a neighboring town. He is unsuccessful in his quest and being penniless, and his wife in need of...

Pirates attack the town of Martinique and capture the governor. But the townspeople rally back in a battle between ships.

A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.

Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his...

The voyage of the "Minnehaha" ends in disaster, and everyone, with the exception of Captain Barker, his daughter Elizabeth, and the mate, Bill,...

When Jasper Leigh calls on Professor Hunt to ask for his daughter, Mary's, hand in marriage, the Professor tells him that the girl is too young. He...

A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.

When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis...

Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it...

Jim Carson, a young farmer, loves the school teacher, Helen Dale, and they expect to be married. His father unexpectedly marries a widow who has a...

Tim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother and sweetheart. He decides to turn over a new leaf....

The Emerald City in all its splendor with all the familiar characters so dear to the hearts of children - Little Dorothy, the scarecrow, the woodman,...

In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film

An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen,...