William S. Hart
1907
Ben Hur
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
His Hour of Manhood
Pete Larson is a brute whose battered wife, Anne, finally finds courage to leave. The woma…
1914
In the Sage Brush Country
In what scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan misleadingly called “The Romantic Adventures of a Wo…
Jim Cameron's Wife
Jim Cameron becomes desperate at his failure to get work, and resolves to hold up the stag…
1914
The Bargain
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his…
1914
Two-Gun Hicks
Legendary gunslinger Two-Gun Hicks arrives in Moose Gulch, quickly dispatching a local bul…
1915
Bad Buck of Santa Ynez
An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a…
1915
Cash Parrish's Pal
Cash Parrish, a bandit, is betrayed to the sheriff by his pal, Jud Ross, who covets Parris…
Grit
Grit is a Western short
1915
Keno Bates, Liar
Jim Maitland loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and s…
1915
Knight of the Trail
Jim and Molly are set to get married when Molly finds out about her fiancé's criminal past…
1915
Mr. 'Silent' Haskins
Lon 'Silent' Haskins competes for the affection of a woman who recently inherited ownershi…
1915
On the Night Stage
A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who…
Pinto Ben
Pinto Ben is a pink-nosed cow-pony. A hundred head of cattle are rounded up for beef to be…
1915
The Conversion of Frosty Blake
Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician…
1915
The Darkening Trail
Yukon Ed has asked saloon owner Ruby McGraw to marry him several times, and has been turne…
1915
The Disciple
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the…
1915
The Grudge
Bandit Rio Ed (played by William S. Hart) is insulted by a "sick youth" calling him a "che…
1915
The Man from Nowhere
In Snake River, Buck Farley breaks up a fight staged by crooked Chicago Saloon owner Johns…
1915
The Roughneck
Avis and Franklin Hilliard are the spoiled, overbearing children of a wealthy father who h…
1915
The Ruse
"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a bu…
The Scourge of the Desert
Bill Evers, a gambling house keeper, is in reality the "Desert Scourge," an outlaw.
1915
The Sheriff's Streak of Yellow
One of the earliest westerns directed by William S. Hart. In this film Sferiff Hale (Hart)…
1915
The Taking of Luke McVane
Luke McVane (William S. Hart) shoots a card-cheat in self-defense and has to make a run fo…
1915
Tools of Providence
Dakota Dan, who runs the saloon and gambling hall, is refusing to take another drink with…
1916
Between Men
When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his daughter's suitor, H…
1916
Hell's Hinges
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, salo…
1916
The Apostle of Vengeance
1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, N…
1916
The Aryan
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge.…
1916
The Captive God
A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is rai…
1916
The Dawn Maker
Half-breed Joe Elk wavers between the "civilized" nature of his white father and the passi…
1916
The Devil's Double
"Bowie" Blake is a gambler in a mining camp. One day, an artist, Van Dyke Tarleton comes t…
1916
The Patriot
Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy weste…
1916
The Primal Lure
A 1916 silent Western
1916
The Return of Draw Egan
A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associ…
1917
The Desert Man
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays…