Francis McDonald Movies

A 9-part movie serial

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her...

Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. He's also a jealous and vindictive man,...

A 1913 short directed by Stanner E.V Taylor and starring Marion Leonard.

Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind...

Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.

A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.

Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes...

Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the release of her innocent brother from jail. She...

After his defeat at the hands of "Spider" Flynn, the welterweight champion of Europe, boxer Jimmie Dolan and his trainer, Thomas Jefferson Jones,...

It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.

Young mechanical engineer John Ashton is trying to complete the plans for a new submarine. Under pressure to meet a deadline he has been leaning on...

A Canadian Mountie officer pursuing a fugitive from the law, is left in a moral conundrum when the fugitive saves his life.

In the Latin Quarter of Paris, American artist David Lane (Norman Kerry) marries his model Yvonne (Olive Thomas), but just prior to the birth of...

A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes...