Sidney Olcott — Director (6)
You Remember Ellen (1912) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Remember Ellen
Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
Poor Little Peppina (1916) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Poor Little Peppina
director: Sidney Olcott actor: Mary Pickford / Eugene O'Brien
other title: Peppina / 半生の悪夢
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a marriage to a particularly loathsome count. While aboard ship she befriends Hugh Carroll, an assistant district attorney, who arranges first-class transportation for the "boy." In New York, she once again meets her kidnapper, who fled to America after the crime. He forces Peppina to maintain the masculine disguise and to pass counterfeit bills for him, for which she is arrested. Peppina gladly exposes the kidnapper's operation to the authorities, one of whom, Hugh, recognizes her as the "boy" he met on the ship. Then, once the kidnapper has been apprehended, Peppina is reunited with her parents, after which she and Hugh, who has finally discovered that she is female, get married.
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
director: Sidney Olcott actor: Gene Gauntier
The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate headquarters by one of its spies. Nan, a girl frequently employed by the department of the Confederate army, is called to headquarters and instructed to secure the destruction of the enemy's ammunition train just reported. Nan is fitted out with a Union uniform, mounted on a fast horse and sent on her journey, previously provided with a forged order supposedly signed by a Union general which authorizes her to pass through the lines.