Movies: The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

  • 1915
    The Tramp

    The Tramp (1915)

    The Tramp

    6.51915HD

    The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their li...

    The Tramp
  • 1915
    A Night in the Show

    A Night in the Show (1915)

    A Night in the Show

    6.21915HD

    Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest...

    A Night in the Show
  • 1915
    The Champion

    The Champion (1915)

    The Champion

    6.41915HD

    Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The train...

    The Champion
  • 1915
    Shanghaied

    Shanghaied (1915)

    Shanghaied

    5.81915HD

    A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Char...

    Shanghaied
  • 1916
    Police

    Police (1916)

    Police

    6.21916HD

    Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house....

    Police
  • 1915
    His New Job

    His New Job (1915)

    His New Job

    5.61915HD

    When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidenta...

    His New Job
  • 1915
    A Jitney Elopement

    A Jitney Elopement (1915)

    A Jitney Elopement

    5.71915HD

    Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policem...

    A Jitney Elopement
  • 1915
    In the Park

    In the Park (1915)

    In the Park

    5.31915HD

    A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charl...

    In the Park
  • 1915
    Work

    Work (1915)

    Work

    5.81915HD

    Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie of...

    Work
  • 1915
    A Burlesque on Carmen

    A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)

    A Burlesque on Carmen

    5.81915HD

    A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run....

    A Burlesque on Carmen
  • 1915
    A Night Out

    A Night Out (1915)

    A Night Out

    5.71915HD

    After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife....

    A Night Out
  • 1915
    A Woman

    A Woman (1915)

    A Woman

    5.91915HD

    Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner....

    A Woman
  • 1915
    By the Sea

    By the Sea (1915)

    By the Sea

    5.41915HD

    It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife....

    By the Sea
  • 1912
    The Virtue of Rags

    The Virtue of Rags (1912)

    The Virtue of Rags

    01912HD

    A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways a...

    The Virtue of Rags
  • 1915
    Broncho Billy and the False Note

    Broncho Billy and the False Note (1915)

    Broncho Billy and the False Note

    61915HD

    While on the round-up, Broncho's rival one night steals his sweetheart's picture from his watch. He then returns to the girl with a note saying that Broncho has fallen in love with another girl and is returning her photograph. He signs Broncho's name...

    Broncho Billy and the False Note
  • 1915
    Suppressed Evidence

    Suppressed Evidence (1915)

    Suppressed Evidence

    01915HD

    The wife and mother, in love with her local instructor, places her husband's revolver and a note to "get rid of him" in her lover's coat pocket. The professor telephones to the husband to meet him and is about to shoot when the husband, in a small ta...

    Suppressed Evidence
  • 1914
    The Inference of Broncho Billy

    The Inference of Broncho Billy (1914)

    The Inference of Broncho Billy

    01914HD

    Old Carl Stockdale is an habitual drunkard and the cause of much unhappiness to his daughter, Marguerite. Broncho Billy meets Stockdale's charming daughter and becomes very much interested in her, and realizes the sad state of affairs in the home on ...

    The Inference of Broncho Billy
  • 1916
    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes (1916)

    Sherlock Holmes

    6.31916HD

    When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy ...

    Sherlock Holmes
  • 1915
    His Regeneration

    His Regeneration (1915)

    His Regeneration

    4.21915HD

    A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room....

    His Regeneration
  • 1912
    From the Submerged

    From the Submerged (1912)

    From the Submerged

    4.51912HD

    A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman. When she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he rememb...

    From the Submerged