Cast: Gilbert Dalleu

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Lucien Bataille · Camille Bardou · Henri Gouget · Madeleine Grandjean

Plot An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece, Madeleine. Being inquisitive, though, he runs off, getting into...

Direction Henri Fescourt

Cast Romuald Joubé · Johanna Sutter · Hugues de Bagratide · Louis Monfils

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Pauline Polaire · Henry Roussel · César · André Dubosc

Plot One of the earliest surviving films of French-American director Maurice Tourneur, this discovered three-reel melodrama features Polaire in the title role, an impoverished waif turned circus performer. She is adopted...

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast André Liabel · Josette Andriot · Gilbert Dalleu · Cécile Guyon

Direction Henri Pouctal

Cast Gabrielle Réjane · Albert Dieudonné · Barbier · Camille Bardou

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Charles Krauss · André Liabel · Marcel Vibert · Cécile Guyon

Plot In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair’s new series of social dramas. For Au pays...

Cast Gilbert Dalleu · Cécile Guyon

Direction Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast Josette Andriot · Lucien Bataille · Charles Krauss · Henri Gouget

Plot Protéa is the last film directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, one of the early film pioneers in France. The hero of this film is a female spy, an acrobatic Mata-Hari, played...

Direction Henri Pouctal

Cast Léon Mathot · Alexandre Colas · Albert Mayer · Jean Garat

Plot Le comte de Monte Cristo (15 Episodes). Monte Cristo, based upon Alexandre Dumas’ novel of the same name, tells the story of Edmond Dantès, an innocent man jailed for 14...