14 March 1908 Drama, Thriller 6 mins
Two criminals lure a doctor away from his home with a phony note about a child's illness. After the doctor rushes off, the criminals break into his house and menace his wife and child. By the time the doctor realizes what has happened, his family faces a desperate situation.
Watch the official The Physician of the Castle 1908 trailer in HD below.
A Narrow Escape Trailer
France 14 March 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
01 January 1908
A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
31 January 1908
Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty to Prince Charming.
03 April 1908
A pickpocket manages to escape the police through a series of fantastic tricks. The director in this film is unknown.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
17 November 1908
The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
13 September 1908
This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks, flames and fountains as well as the customary fairies, magic and dancing.
01 August 1908
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
03 September 1908
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder).
16 October 1908
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
27 June 1908
An old merchant gets lost in the forest and arrives at a magnificent garden where he sits and picks some magnificent roses.
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