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The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915. It was the corporate successor to his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film Company.

The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.

After the Crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.

Best films

Cavalcade
Cavalcade
(1933) 7th Heaven
7th Heaven
(1927) Street Angel
Street Angel
(1928) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927) In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona
(1928) Bad Girl
Bad Girl
(1931)
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Filmography of Fox Film (385 films)

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Camille
Camille (1917)
, 1h
Directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, Walter Law, Alice Gale, Claire Whitney, Richard Barthelmess

As described in a film magazine, Armand Duval (Roscoe), a son in the proud but poor house of Duval, loves Camille (Bara), a notorious Parisian beauty. His love for Camille means that his sister Celeste (Whitney) cannot marry the man she loves, so the father goes to Camille and begs her to give Armand up, which she does. This arouses the anger of Armand and he denounces her one evening in public. The Count de Varville (Law) challenges Armand to a duel which he wins, wounding Armand in the arm. Believing Camille no longer loves him, Armand does not go to see her. One day his father tells him that Camille is dying. He goes to her and, after a few words, she dies in the arms of her lover.
A Rich Man's Plaything
A Rich Man's Plaything (1917)

Directed by Carl Harbaugh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Valeska Suratt, Edward Martindel, John T. Dillon

As described in a film magazine, Marie (Suratt), employed in a New England Cannery, meets "Iron" Lloyd (Martindel), a millionaire financier and tenement owner, whose yacht is cruising off the coast. He poses as a stoker and soon learns from Mary that, if she had the means, she would wage battle against the oppressive tenement lords. As a test, Lloyd, whom she knows as Strange, has his lawyer transfer a fortune to her as a legacy from a lost relative. Mary goes to New York and starts her fight against Lloyd. Ogden Deneau (Dillon), Lloyd's rival in business, associates himself with Mary, pretending to be interested in her work but planning to crush Lloyd. But she has an old score to settle with Deneau and enlists Strange's aid. On the day of the great coup, she arranges to meet Deneau at a country inn, and there exposes him to his wife (Kelly). Returning to the city she learns from Strange that Deneau is bankrupt and that Strange is really Lloyd. She is furious as first, but relents when Lloyd tells her that he was testing her and asks her to start life anew with him.
The Silent Lie
The Silent Lie (1917)

Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Charles Clary, Monroe Salisbury, Henry Arthur Barrows

Lady Lou est forcée par son père adoptif, Hatfield, de travailler dans un saloon d'un camp de bûcherons. Grâce aux efforts d'un étranger secrètement amoureux d'elle, Lou part dans un camp voisin où elle rencontre Conahan, un bûcheron, avec lequel elle se marie. Son passé est révélé lors d'une confrontation avec Hatfield et son mari se détourne d'elle. Elle est encore une fois sauvé par l'intervention de l'étranger qui raconte la vérité sur la vie de Lou à son mari. Après leur réconciliation, l'étranger part seul dans la neige.
When a Man Sees Red
When a Man Sees Red (1917)

Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Horace B. Carpenter, G. Raymond Nye, Frank Ellis, Marc Robbins

As described in a film magazine, after a long sea voyage, Larry Smith (Farnum) comes home to find his sister (Bower) dead, the victim of some unknown person. Shortly after his mother (Drew) dies of a broken heart, Smith sets sail with a determination to wreck vengeance upon the murderer. Unknowingly he has become a mate to Captain Sutton (Nye), the man who ruined his sister. At a South Sea port Smith meets Violet North (Carmen), known as the Painted Lady. Smith falls in love with her and proposes, but she will not marry him because of her past, and the next day sails away with the rest of her party. Logan (Robbins), one of the "dogs" on Sutton's vessel, was a witness to Sutton's attack on the Smith girl and for this reason Sutton sails away leaving Logan on shore alone. Logan meets Smith and tells his tale. Logan and Smith search the islands for a trace of Sutton. When a storm rises and Violet, aboard a yacht, is tossed onto the island occupied by Smith. Sutton also comes ashore on a boat. Thirst for revenge seizes Smith and he attacks Sutton, who dies in the fight. Violet nurses Sutton back to health and sanity.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1917)

Directed by Sidney Franklin, Chester M. Franklin, Chester Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Virginia Lee Corbin, Francis Carpenter, Elmo Lincoln, Charles Gorman, Violet Radcliffe, Lewis Sargent

As described in a film magazine, Jim Hawkins (Carpenter) and his mother operate the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, and when they are threatened by an attack by pirates they go to the home of their friend, the squire, for the night. Mrs. Hawkins (Washington) hands the squire a package she found in a chest that was owned by Billy Bones, one of her boarders who had died. The squire discovers a map showing the location of treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim, overhearing the squire's plans to recover the treasure, goes to sleep and dreams that he, Louise (Corbin), and a ship's crew have set out to find the gold. Long John Silver (Radcliffe), their first mate, is a crook and with some of the men plan to rob Jim and Louise of the treasure. After a fight on the island and the killing off of Long John Silver's men, Long John Silver joins Jim and his gang and through Ben Gunn (Sargent) they find the treasure. Just as Jim is about to distribute it, he wakes up.
Betrayed
Betrayed (1917)
, 50minutes
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Miriam Cooper, James A. Marcus, Hobart Bosworth, Monte Blue, Wheeler Oakman

Carmelita Carrito (Cooper), a young Mexican girl, is an aristocrat at heart despite the coarseness exhibited by her father Carpi (Marcus).
A Daughter of the Gods
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
, 3h
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Mermaids in film
Actors Annette Kellerman, Stuart Holmes, Jane Lee, Ricca Allen, Barbara Castleton, Katherine Lee

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.
The Vixen
The Vixen (1916)
, 1h
Directed by J. Gordon Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes, George Clark, Carl Gerard

Elsie Drummond (Theda Bara) is the spoiled daughter of an Admiral (George Clarke) who wanted much more than her father's position in society could offer. She didn't have the ability to meet men and socialize with them, but she thinks in a way of lure them in once they were within her limited circle.