Movies: John S. Robertson

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind....

In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader....

When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom....

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him....

Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the novel The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Davies....

During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr. Wolff, a Danish scientist who, in reality, is a German agent. When Jack learns that Wolff is m...

Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself....

Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn....

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold....

A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist....

Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him....

The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood. The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Param...

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced....

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend....

Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries Juliet Miller. Known as Erstwhile Susan, she becomes fond of Barnabetta, and because she retains con...

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie....

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems a...

When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder....

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt an...

Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning leave the others behind. They get lost and have to spend the night in a cabin. When they are brought back...