Aurora Floyd is a 1912 American silent short drama film directed by Theodore Marston based on the 1863 British novel of the same name by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The film stars Florence La Badie in the title role, William Garwood, and Harry Benham. The film also stars Maude Fealy and David Thompson.
, 15minutes OrigineEtats-Unis GenresComédie ActeursWilliam Garwood, Florence La Badie Note61% Plusieurs couples mariés arrivent sur une île afin d'y passer un séjour en camping. Les femmes se rendent vite compte qu'elles font le sale boulot. Elles décident de "faire la grève" [..]
, 12minutes Réalisé parLucius Henderson OrigineEtats-Unis GenresHorreur ActeursJames Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Marguerite Snow, Harry Benham, Jane Gail Note59% Le Dr Jekyll aux cheveux blancs s'est secrètement enfermé dans son laboratoire, s'administrant une fiole de formule. Il s'affale sur sa chaise, la tête sur sa poitrine. Alors que le médicament fait lentement effet, une bête aux cheveux noirs, aux griffes et aux deux grands crocs apparaît sur la chaise. Après une utilisation répétée, l'alter ego maléfique de Jekyll émerge à volonté, faisant tomber une petite fille dans la rue et allant jusqu'à assassiner le père de sa petite amie (le pasteur local). La personnalité maléfique retourne en courant au laboratoire pour découvrir que l'antidote est terminé et qu'il devra rester à jamais M. Hyde. Un policier costaud enfonce la porte de Jekyll avec une hache pour trouver le gentil docteur mort d'avoir bu du poison.
OrigineEtats-Unis GenresScience-fiction, Comédie, Horreur, Romance ActeursWilliam Garwood, Harry Benham Note58% The original synopsis of the film was published in the Moving Picture World as follows: "Professor Dix has won fame as a scientist and has collected many objects of Egyptian ware, centuries old, that arouse the enthusiasm of his associates. Even Jack Thornton, an active, go-ahead young businessman, is interested in the professor's home, but although he tries to pretend it is Egyptology which interests him, the professor's fair young daughter is really the lodestone. Jack decides to win the old man's respect by posing as an Egyptologist himself. To start his collection, he purchases a mummy at an auction sale, and takes it home expecting that later he can make a great hit with his sweetheart's father, by presenting it to him as a gift. While the mummy is in Jack's room, a live electric wire is by accident brought in contact with it. The body has been so perfectly mummified, that the electric current is all that is necessary to ignite the vital spark, and Jack is amazed to see dancing forth from the case which he thought contained only unattractive rags and bones, a beautiful Egyptian princess. As soon as she is released, the mummy makes violent love to Jack, and causes his sweetheart to quarrel with him (for how can a plain businessman explain the presence in his room of a beautiful barbarian?). When her love is spurned, the visitor from the distant past avenges herself by having Jack made into a mummy and placed in the case in her stead. Her heart relents, however, in time to save him from being 'cut up' by the professor, who with the sharp knife, starts to investigate the contents of the mummy case. But all ends happily when Jack's plain statements of the seemingly impossible facts are proved true by the professor. Jack is reunited to his sweetheart, and the professor, being a widower, also an ardent admirer of everything antique, leads the recreated Egyptian lady to the altar, in spite of the fact that there is a difference of several thousand years in their ages.