1916 in film

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The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top six 1916 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1916
Rank Title Studio Gross
1 Intolerance Triangle $1,750,000[1]
2 Joan the Woman Paramount $605,731[2]
3 Maria Rosa $102,767[2]
4 The Heart of Nora Flynn $87,738[2]
5 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine $77,944[2]
6 The Dream Girl $66,725[2]

Notable films released in 1916

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, directed by Stuart Paton for Universal Pictures, starring Curtis Benton and Alan Holubar (as Capt. Nemo), based on the novel by Jules Verne
  • The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring Directed by Francis Ford
  • The Americano Directed by John Emerson
  • Arima no neko sodo (Japanese) starring Matsunosuke Onoe, another film adaptation of the Japanese legend of the "Ghost Cat of Arima"[3]
  • Bake ginnan (Japanese) directed by Shozo Makino for Nikkatsu, starring Matsunosuke Onoe; a film adaptation of the Japanese legend of the "Monster Gingko Tree"[4]
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  • Behind the Screen, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance
  • The Black Crook, directed by Robert Vignola, starring Edward P. Sullivan; based on a play by Charles M. Barras, this "Faust"-like film was one of the earliest film musicals with choreographed dance numbers[5]
  • The Bogus Ghost, an 11-minute comedydirected by Harry F. Millarde for Kalem Films
  • La Bohème, by Albert Capellani
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Poster of Intolerancce
  • Howard C. Hickman and Enid Markey
  • The Count, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance
  • Crime and the Penalty (British) directed by R. Harley West, this film's plot was a cross between Murders in the Rue Morgue and Trilby, featuring a gorilla trained to strange people[6]
  • The Crimson Stain Mystery (British) 16-chapter science-fiction serial directed by T. Hayes Hunter; a near-complete print exists in the Library of Congress[7]
  • The Curse of Quon Gwon
  • The Danger Girl, starring Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon
  • A Daughter of the Gods, a 3-hour long movie directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Annette Kellerman; this was the United States' first million-dollar film production[8]
  • The Dead Alive, directed by Henry J. Vernot, starring Marguerite Courtot
  • A Dead With the Devil (British) short Faustian film directed by Frank Wilson, produced by Cecil M. Hepworth[9]
  • The Devil's Bondwoman, directed by Lloyd B. Carleton for Universal Pictures, starring Dorothy Davenport and Emory Johnson
  • The Devil's Toy, directed by Harley Knoles, based on an Edward Madden poem "The Mill of the Gods", starring Adele Blood and Montagu Love[10]
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  • Doktor Satansohn (German) directed by Edmund Edel, starring Ernst Lubitsch[11]
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  • Farmer Al Falfa's Cat-Tastrophe, animation produced by Paul Terry
  • The Fable of the Small Town Favorite Who Was Ruined by Too Much Competition, comedy short silent film
  • Fatty and Mabel Adrift, directed by and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
  • Feathertop, directed by Henry J. Vernot, starring Mathilde Baring, John Reinhard and Marguerite Courtot; loosely based on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne[12]
  • Charles Chaplin
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  • The Grasping Hand (French) 13-minute ghost film directed by Max Linder who also starred in it
  • The Green-Eyed Monster, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Robert B. Mantell and Stuart Holmes
  • Habit of Happiness, starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • Haunted, a haunted cabin film starring Lillian Leighton and Ralph McComas
  • The Haunted Bell, directed by Henry Otto, starring King Baggot, based on a short story by Jacques Futrelle
  • Haunts for Rent, directed by C. Allan Gilbert, this film featured mixed live action with animated effects
  • Hell's Hinges, directed by Charles Swickard and William S. Hart, starring William S. Hart
  • Her Father's Gold (aka The Water Devil) directed by Eugene Moore for Thanhouser Films, based on a story by Crittenden Marriott[13]
  • Homunculus (German) 6-chapter serial about a scientist who creates an artificial human, directed by Otto Rippert, starring Olaf Foenss as the Monster; plot similar to Frankenstein, Alraune and The Golem[14]
  • Hoodoo Ann, starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron
  • Hulda from Holland, starring Mary Pickford
Belshazzar's feast scene from Intolerance
  • D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Constance Talmadge
  • Joan the Woman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Geraldine Farrar
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  • Lights of New York, directed by Van Dyke Brooke, starring Leah Baird and Walter McGrail
  • Luke's Double (French) 11-minute comedy short based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Harold Lloyd, directed by Hal Roach[15]
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  • Man Without a Soul (British) directed by George Loane Tucker, starring Barbara Everest and Milton Rosmer[16]
  • A Maori Maid's Love, directed by Raymond Longford – (Australia/New Zealand)
  • Mingling Spirits, short film directed by Al Christie for Universal Pictures, starring Betty Compson
  • Mr. Tvardovski (Russian) a Faustian-type film directed by Ladislas Starevitch, starring Nicolai Saltykov, based on a novel by J. I. Kraszevski; part of the film featured animation
  • The Mutiny of the Bounty, directed by Raymond Longford – (Australia/New Zealand)
  • The Mysteries of Myra, 15-chapter serial directed by Theodore and Leopold Wharton, starring Jean Sothern, Howard Estabrook and Warner Oland[17]
  • The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, short directed by John Emerson, starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • Night of Horror/ Nachte des Grauens (German) a lost film directed by Richard Oswald and Arthur Robison, starring Emil Jannings and Werner Krauss, cited in some references as being the first vampire film [18]
  • Oliver Twist, starring Marie Doro
  • One A.M., directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
  • Charles Chaplin
    short
  • The Phantom of the Opera (German) first film version of the Gaston Leroux novel, directed by Ernst Matray, starring Nils Olaf Chrisander and Aud Egede Nissen
  • The Phantom Witness, directed by Frederick Sullivan for Thanhouser Films, starring Kathryn Adams and Edwin Stanley
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (British) directed by Fred W. Durant, starring Henry Victor and Pat O'Malley
  • Charles Chaplin short with Edna Purviance and Wesley Ruggles
  • The Queen of Spades/ Pikovaya dama (Russian) directed by Yakov Protazanov, based on the short story by Alexander Pushkin, starring Tamara Duvan and Nikolai Panov[19]
  • The Real Thing at Last (British) directed by James m. Barrie and L.C. MacBean, starring Ernest Thesiger
  • The Return of Draw Egan, directed by and starring William S. Hart
  • Charles Chaplin
    short
  • The Romantic Journey, directed by George Fitzmaurice, written by Ouida Bergere, starring William Courtenay
  • Saint, Devil and Woman, directed by Frederick Sullivan for Thanhouser Films, starring Florence La Badie
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  • Sally in Our Alley directed by Larry Trimble, starring
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  • Seven Keys to Baldpate (Australian) directed by Monte Luke, starring Dorothy Brunton and J. Plumpton Wilson; based on the 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers which was turned into a play by George M. Cohan[20]
  • She (British) directed by Horace Lisle Lucoque and William G.B. Barker, starring Alice Delysia and Henry Victor; the first British film adaptation of the H. Rider Haggard novel[21]
  • Sherlock Holmes (U.S.), directed by Arthur Berthelet, starring William Gillette as Holmes, based on the 1899 stage play which also starred William Gillette (Ernest Maupain played Moriarty)
  • The Shielding Shadow (aka Ravengar) 15-chapter serial directed by Louis Gasnier (who later directed Reefer Madness in 1936) and Donald MacKenzie, starring Grace Darmond and Ralph Kellard[22]
  • The Silent Stranger (aka The Silent Man) 11-minute short starring, and directed by, King Baggot
  • Snow White, starring Marguerite Clark
  • Sold to Satan, starring and directed by Edward Sloman
  • The Soul's Cycle, directed by Ulysses Davis, starring Margaret Gibson and John Oaker, deals with reincarnation similar in plot to The Mummy (1932)
  • Trilby Frilled, 10-minute short directed by Edwin McKim, starring Davy Don as Svengali and Patsy De Forest; spoof of George Du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby[23]
  • Under Two Flags, starring Theda Bara
  • Ultus, the Man From the Dead (British) directed by George Pearson for Gaumont Films, starring Aurele Sydney as Ultus, a superhero apparently influenced by France's popular film character Fantomas; there were four Ultus films in the series, which were later re-edited into seven shorter films for overseas distribution
  • Ultus and the Grey Lady (British) 2nd film in the "Ultus" series, directed by George Pearson, starring Aurele Sydney as Ultus
  • Ultus and the Secret of the Night (British) 3rd film in the "Ultus" series, directed by George Pearson, again starring Aurele Sydney as Ultus
  • Ultus and the Three-Button Mystery (British) 4th and final film in the "Ultus" series, directed by George Pearson, starring Aurele Sydney as Ultus; this 4th film wasn't theatrically released until 1917
  • The Vagabond, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
  • The Valley of Fear (British) directed by Alexander Butler, based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
    , starring H.A. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and Arthur M. Cullin as Dr. Watson (Booth Conway played Moriarty)
  • The Vij (Russian) written and directed by Wadyslaw Starewicz, starring Ivan Mosjoukine and Olga Obolenskaya; the 2nd ever film adaptation of Nicolai Gogol's short story; featured stop motion animation[24]
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  • The Wheel of Death (British) directed by A.E. Coleby, starring Arthur Rooke and Joan Legge
  • Tyrone Power, Sr. and Juan de la Cruz
  • Willard-Johnson Boxing Match
  • The Wings (Swedish: Vingarne) Swedish silent film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Nils Asther, Egil Eide, Lars Hanson, Lili Bech, and Julius Hälsig [sv]
  • Witchcraft, directed by Frank Reicher, produced by Jesse L. Lasky, starring Fannie Ward and Jack Dean, based on a short story by Robert Ralston Reed
  • The Witch of the Mountains, starring Mareguerite Nichols, Gordon Sackville and Richard Johnson; produced by Knickerbocker Star Features
  • The Witching Hour, directed by George Irving, starring C. Aubrey Smith and Marie Shotwell; this was adapted from the 1907 stage play by Augustus Thomas

Short film series

Births

Deaths

Debuts

References

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