Van Dyke Brooke Movies

Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and their home. Their hopes are not in vain. One...

The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneezing powder into a bunch of flowers to make...

A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing father.

One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking. Mrs. Tunison is obliged to provide for her...

Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend,...

Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money...

During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her husband, asking him to put her little girl in the...

Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in the English Army, bids an affectionate farewell...

A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.

Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one dies and the other marries a Northern nurse.

Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father's rich...

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was killed by her mother (and it wasn't...

Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.

Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a...

Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years ago, has died, leaving him a legacy...

A short comic film in which Sam and Doris use the hat of Doris’ father (a manager) to send letters to each other.

More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of...

Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver watch that belonged to his father. The...