Carl Laemmle Movies

  • 1923
    The Shock

    The Shock

    The Shock

    5.11923HD

    A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love...

    The Shock
  • 1928
    Haunted Island

    Haunted Island

    Haunted Island

    01928HD

    Rosalind Joy (Helen Foster) is an heiress who has inherited a South Seas island known as Pleasure Island. A hidden cache of gold is allegedly buried...

    Haunted Island
  • 1924
    The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios

    The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios

    The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios

    71924HD

    The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick...

    The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
  • 1909
    Hiawatha

    Hiawatha

    Hiawatha

    01909HD

    Drama Short

    Hiawatha
  • 1926
    The Old Soak

    The Old Soak

    The Old Soak

    01926HD

    To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and money in the company of Al, the local bootlegger.

    The Old Soak
  • 1927
    Desert Dust

    Desert Dust

    Desert Dust

    01927HD

    Frank Fortune, a young rancher, is jailed along with two of his men for fighting with rival ranchers. Helen Marsden, daughter of a wealthy senator...

    Desert Dust
  • 1911
    The Better Way

    The Better Way

    The Better Way

    01911HD

    A lost film. Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions....

    The Better Way
  • 1931
    Round About Hollywood

    Round About Hollywood

    Round About Hollywood

    61931HD

    This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken...

    Round About Hollywood
  • 1932
    Racing Youth

    Racing Youth

    Racing Youth

    01932HD

    A young man is mistaken for his boss.

    Racing Youth
  • 1932
    Igloo

    Igloo

    Igloo

    01932HD

    Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.

    Igloo
  • 1930
    Africa

    Africa

    Africa

    5.31930HD

    Oswald is riding on a camel; he defeats an attacking lion, using the camel's humps as cannonballs. In Cairo, he meets a queen and sings her his theme...

    Africa
  • 1927
    Taxi! Taxi!

    Taxi! Taxi!

    Taxi! Taxi!

    01927HD

    An architect, constantly in trouble with his employers, falls for the boss's niece. When he spontaneously buys a taxicab to take her home on a rainy...

    Taxi! Taxi!
  • 1934
    Romance in the Rain

    Romance in the Rain

    Romance in the Rain

    01934HD

    The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.

    Romance in the Rain
  • 1926
    The Still Alarm

    The Still Alarm

    The Still Alarm

    01926HD

    Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl...

    The Still Alarm
  • 1911
    A Manly Man

    A Manly Man

    A Manly Man

    01911HD

    Of the over 30 one-reelers Mary Pickford made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Motion Pictures Company, A Manly Man is one of few that...

    A Manly Man
  • 1912
    Shamus O'Brien

    Shamus O'Brien

    Shamus O'Brien

    01912HD

    Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

    Shamus O'Brien
  • 1929
    The Brandenburg Arch

    The Brandenburg Arch

    The Brandenburg Arch

    4.51929HD

    In the year 1914: The assistants of cobbler Lehmann compete for the affections of his daughter Frieda. Actually she’s in love with her...

    The Brandenburg Arch
  • 1923
    Where Is This West?

    Where Is This West?

    Where Is This West?

    01923HD

    John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take...

    Where Is This West?
  • 1911
    Sweet Memories

    Sweet Memories

    Sweet Memories

    41911HD

    An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....

    Sweet Memories
  • 1923
    Trimmed in Scarlet

    Trimmed in Scarlet

    Trimmed in Scarlet

    01923HD

    Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to...

    Trimmed in Scarlet