Editing 1915 in film (section)

==Notable films released in 1915==
[[List of American films of 1915|United States]] unless stated

===A===
* ''Adachihara Ubagaike Yurei'' (Japanese), starring Matsunosuke Onoe, produced in Japan by Nikkatsu <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Agony of Fear'', directed by Giles Warren<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''Alice in Wonderland'' by W.W. Young
* ''[[Are You a Mason? (1915 film)|Are You a Mason?]]'', directed by [[Thomas N. Heffron]], starring [[John Barrymore]]
* ''The Arrow Maiden'', directed by Francis Powers<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''[[Assunta Spina (1915 film)|Assunta Spina]]'', starring [[Francesca Bertini]] –  ([[Italian films of the 1910s|Italy]])
* ''The Avenging Hand'' (British) aka ''The Wraith of the Tomb'', directed by Charles Calvert, written by William J. Elliott<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===B===
* ''[[Barnaby Rudge (film)|Barnaby Rudge]]'', directed by [[Thomas Bentley (director)|Thomas Bentley]] ([[British films of 1915|Britain]])
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'', directed by [[D. W. Griffith]], starring [[Lillian Gish]]
* ''The Blood Seedling'', produced by William Selig, directed by (and starring) Tom Santschi <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>
* ''The Bribe'', short film directed by Lucius Henderson for Universal, starring Charles Ogle<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>

===C===
* ''Call From the Dead'', early zombie film directed by Clem Easton for Thanhouser Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 144"/>
* ''[[The Caprices of Kitty]]'', directed by [[Phillips Smalley]], starring [[Elsie Janis]]
* ''[[Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)|Carmen]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Geraldine Farrar]]
* ''[[Carmen (1915 Raoul Walsh film)|Carmen]]'', directed by [[Raoul Walsh]], starring [[Theda Bara]]
* ''The Case of Becky'', directed by Frank Reicher, starring Blanche Sweet<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Castle of Thornfield'' (Italian) adapted from the novel ''Jane Eyre'' by Charlotte Bronte<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''[[The Champion (1915 film)|The Champion]]'', starring [[Charles Chaplin]] and [[Edna Purviance]]
* ''[[The Cheat (1915 film)|The Cheat]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Fannie Ward]] and [[Sessue Hayakawa]]
* ''The Cheval Mystery'', directed by (and starring) Harry Myers for Victor Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''The Chronicles of Bloom Center'', short comedy directed by Marshall Neilan <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 145"/>
* ''The Circular Staircase'', directed by Edward J. LeSaint for Selig Films, based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, starring Eugenie Besserer and Stella Razeto<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 143"/>
* ''[[The Crazy Clock Maker]]'', comedy starring Oliver Hardy
* ''A Cry in the Night'' (British) a science fiction film about a winged gorilla created by a mad scientist, directed by Ernest G. Batley<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===D===
* ''Destiny's Skein'', directed and scripted by George Terwilliger, about a murderer with a split personality<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146"/>
* ''The Devil'' (aka ''Satan's Pawn''), based on the play by Ferenc Molnar, this film was produced and co-directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Arthur Maude and Bessie Barriscale <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 146"/>
* ''The Devil to Pay'' (British) short film directed by Edwin J. Collins, with a story similar to ''Faust''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 147">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Devil's Profession'' (British) written and directed by F.C.S. Tudor, foreshadowing Val Lewton's ''Bedlam'' (1946)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 147"/>
* ''[[Double Trouble (1915 film)|Double Trouble]]'', starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]]
* ''A Drama of the Castle, or Do the Dead Return?'' (French) 6-minute film written and directed by [[Abel Gance]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Dream Dance'', directed by Leon D. Kent for Lubin Films, starring Lee Shumway<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''The Duel in the Dark'', starring Arthur Bauer and Carey L. Hastings, features an evil hypnotist<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''The Dust of Egypt'', mummy film directed by George D. Baker, starring Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>

===E===
* ''The Eleventh Dimension'', science fiction film produced and written by Raymond L. Schrock, directed by Clem Easton<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 148"/>
* ''[[Enoch Arden (1915 film)|Enoch Arden]]'', starring [[Lillian Gish]]

===F===
* ''[[Fatty's Spooning Days]]'', starring [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Fatty Arbuckle]], [[Mabel Normand]], and [[Keystone Cops|The Keystone Cops]]
* ''Faust'', directed by Edward Sloman who also stars in the film<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 149">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Filibus]]'' –  ([[Italian films of the 1910s|Italy]])
* ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]'', starring [[Theda Bara]]
* ''[[Four Feathers]]''
* ''The Fox Woman'', directed by Lloyd Ingraham, starring Seena Owen and Elmer Clifton<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 149"/>

===G===
* ''[[A Gentleman of Leisure (1915 film)|A Gentleman of Leisure]]'', directed by [[George Melford]], starring [[Wallace Eddinger]]
* ''The Ghost Fakirs'', a "Heinie and Louie" comedy short involving a haunted house
* ''The Ghost of Twisted Oaks'', voodoo film directed by Sidney Olcott for Lubin Films, starring Olcott's wife Valentine Grant<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Golden Chance]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[Cleo Ridgely]] and [[Wallace Reid]]
* ''[[The Golem (1915 film)|The Golem]]'', aka ''Der Golem und Wie auf de Welt Kam'' (German/ Deutsche-Bioscop), directed by [[Paul Wegener]] and [[Henrik Galeen]], starring [[Paul Wegener]] and Lyda Salmonova ([[List of German films of 1895–1918|Germany]])<ref>Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. Page 65. {{ISBN|0-7864-0036-6}}.</ref>
* ''The Gray Horror'', a haunted house film directed by Joseph W. Smiley, who also starred in it<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The Greater Will'', directed by Harley Knowles, starring Montagu Love, Cyril Maude and Lois Meredith <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151"/>

===H===
* ''The Hand of the Skeleton'', French special effects film directed by Danish director George Schneevoight<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 151"/>
* ''The Haunting of Silas P. Gould'' (British) directed by Elwin Neame, starring (his wife) Ivy Close<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 152">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Haunting Winds'', directed by Carl M. Leviness for Universal, starring Frank MacQuarrie and Sydney Ayres<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 152"/>
* ''His Egyptian Affinity'', reincarnated mummy film directed by Al Christie for Nestor Films, starring Victoria Ford<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 153, ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''His Phantom Sweetheart'', short horror/comedy produced and directed by Ralph W. Ince; the writer Earle Williams was also the star<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Horrible Hyde'', a 5-minute comedy version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", directed by and starring Howell Hansel, filmed in Florida<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153"/>
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' Parts 3 and 4 (German film) directed by [[Richard Oswald]], starring [[Alwin Neuss]] as [[Sherlock Holmes]]; Part 3 was called "The Uncanny Room" and Part 4 was "Legend of the Hound"(see 1914 for first two parts)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 153"/>
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Dark Castle'' (German) Vitascope made their own conclusion to their earlier 1914 two-parter with this entry, directed by Willy Zeyn, starring Eugen Burg as Sherlock Holmes<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''The House of a Thousand Candles'', haunted house film based on the novel by Meredith Nicholson, directed by Thomas N. Heffron, starring Harry Mestayer and Edgar Nelson <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154"/>
* ''The House With Nobody In It'', a haunted house film based on the poem by Joyce Kilmer as well as a story by Clarence J. Harris; directed by Richard Garrick<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 154 ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===I===
* ''[[The Immigrant (1915 film)|The Immigrant]]''
* ''The Inner Brute'', starring Warren Waite, Warda Howard and John Lorenz<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 154"/>
* ''An Innocent Sinner'', directed by Kenean Buel, starring Katherine LaSalle and Guy Coombs<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Inspiration (1915 film)|Inspiration]]''
* ''[[The Italian (1915 film)|The Italian]]''

===J===
* ''Jane Eyre'', based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte, directed by Travers Vale, starring Franklyn Ritchie, Louise Vale and Gretchen Hartman<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155"/>
* ''The Japanese Mask'', an obscure French/U.S. co-production made by Pathe/Aetna Films<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 155"/>

===L===
* ''[[The Lamb (1915 film)|The Lamb]]'', starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]]
* ''Legend of the Lone Tree'', a "weird western" film directed by Ulysses Davis for Vitagraph, starring Myrtle Gnzalez and Alfred Vosburgh <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 156">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Life Without Soul]]'', first full-length adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel ''Frankenstein'' (running 70 minutes); directed by Joseph W. Smiley, starring William A. Cohill as the scientist; the film was somewhat re-edited and re-released in 1916 also<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 156"/>
* ''The Live Mummy'' (British) a 13-minute comedy short
* ''London's Yellow Peril'' (British) directed by Maurice Elvey, written by Eliot Stannard; Elvey later went on to make a series of silent Fu Manchu movies<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Lord John in New York'', first in a Universal Pictures series of five silent detective films, starring William Garwood as Lord John, directed by Edward LeSaint<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157"/>

===M===
* ''[[Madame Butterfly (1915 film)|Madame Butterfly]]'', directed by [[Sidney Olcott]], starring [[Mary Pickford]]
* ''The Magic Skin'', directed by Richard Ridgely for Thomas Edison's film company; this was the third film adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novel ''Le Peau de Chagrin''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 157"/>
* ''The Man Who Couldn't Beat God'', directed by Maurice Costello and Robert Gaillard, both of whom starred also
* ''[[The Man Who Stayed at Home (1915 film)|The Man Who Stayed at Home]]'' – ([[British films before 1920|GB]])
* ''[[Martyrs of the Alamo]]''
* ''The Mesmerist'' (British) directed by Percy Nash, starring Douglas Payne<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde'', directed by Charles L. Gaskill and starring Helen Gardner; strangely this was more of an adaptation of ''Faust'' than the novel ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/>
* ''The Missing Mummy'', silent comedy directed by William Beaudine, starring Bud Duncan and Charles Inslee
* ''The Monkey's Paw'' (British) this first film adaptation of the 1902 novel seems to have been based more on the 1907 play instead of the novel; directed by Sidney Northcote, starring John Lawson (who also starred in the play)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/> 
* ''The Moonstone'', directed by Frank Hall Crane, starring Eugene O'Brien and Elaine Hammerstein, based on the 1868 novel by [[Wilkie Collins]]; this was the best known of the silent film versions<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 158"/>
* ''Mortmain'', directed by Theodore Marston for Vitagraph, starring Robert Edeson; this surgical horror film's plot eerily foreshadowed that of the later Conrad Veidt film ''The Hands of Orlac'' (1924).<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 159">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===P===
* ''Peer Gynt'', directed by Raoul Walsh and Oscar Apfel
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (Russian) - third film adaptation of the 1890 Oscar Wilde novel, wherein Dorian Gray is oddly played by a female actress (Varvara Yanova); directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Doronin (both of whom also co-starred in the film)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 159"/>
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', directed by Eugene Moore for Thanhouser Films (U.S.), starring Harris Gordon (as Dorian) and Helen Fulton; this was the fourth film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel
* ''The Portrait'' (Russian) 8-minute fantasy film written and directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, who later went on to direct ''The Viy'' that same year<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda (1915 film)|The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', starring [[Henry Ainley]] and [[Gerald Ames]] ([[British films before 1920|GB]])

===R===
* ''[[The Raven (1915 film)|The Raven]]'', directed by Charles Brabin, starring Henry B. Walthall and Wanda Howard, this was the third biopic to cover the life story of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[Regeneration (1915 film)|Regeneration]]'', directed by [[Raoul Walsh]], starring [[Rockliffe Fellowes]] and [[Anna Q. Nilsson]]
* ''The Return of Maurice Donnelly'', directed by William Humphrey, starring Leo Delaney and Anders Randolph, conceived as a social fable against capital punishment<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>
* ''The Return of Richard Neal'', mesmerism film directed by Edward T. Lowe Jr., starring Francis X. Bushman, Neil Craig and Ernest Maupin<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>

===S===
* ''Sagebrush Tom'', starring [[Tom Mix]]
* ''Satanic Rhapsody'' (Italian) directed by Nino Oxilia (who died in WWI), starring Lyda Borelli and Ugo Bazzini as Mephistopheles; film featured some tinted and hand-stenciled color scenes  <ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 161"/>
* ''The Scorpion's Sting'' (British) aka ''The Devil's Bondman'', directed by Percy Nash, starring George Bellamy
* ''The Secret Room'', directed by Tom Moore for Kalem Films (he also starred in the film)    
* ''[[The Senator (play)|The Senator]]'', directed by Joseph A. Golden
* ''Shunen no hebi'' (translation: ''The Vengeful Snake'') Japanese film directed by Uichiro Tamura
* ''The Silent Command'', directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Universal, starring Leonard and Ella Hall
* ''[[The Soul of Broadway]]''
* ''The Soul of Phyra'', directed by Charles Swickard, starring Enid Markey
* ''The Spectre of the Vault'' (Italian) haunted tomb film directed by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
* ''The Strange Unknown'', directed by Wilbe Melville, starring Helen Eddy and Dorothy Barrett; plot was influenced by ''Jane Eyre'' and ''The Woman in White''<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 163">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>

===T===
* ''The Three Wishes'', (French) obscure 8-minute fantasy film similar to ''The Monkey's Paw''
* ''Togakushi-yama no kijo'' (Japanese) short ghost film directed by Shozo Makino for Nikkatsu Films, starring Matsunosuke Onoe<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 163"/>
* ''[[The Tramp (film)|The Tramp]]'', directed by and starring [[Charles Chaplin]]
* ''[[Le traquenard]]'', starring [[Irène Bordoni]] – ([[French films of the 1910s|France]])
* ''Trilby'', directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Clara Kimball Young as Trilby and Wilton Lackaye as Svengali; the film was slightly edited and re-released in 1917 and again in 1920<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
* ''[[The Two Orphans (1915 film)|The Two Orphans]]'', starring [[Theda Bara]]

===U===
* ''The Unfaithful Wife'', directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Genevieve Hamper and Warner Oland in one of his earliest roles

===V===
* ''The Vivisectionist'', directed by James W. Horne, starring Marin Sais and William H. West

===W===
* ''The Warning'' (aka ''The Eternal Penalty''), directed by Edmund Lawrence starring Henry Kolker; this moral diatribe against alcohol abuse involves a dream trip to Hell
* ''[[The Wheels of Justice]]'', directed by [[Theodore Marston]]
* ''When the Spirits Moved'', directed by Al Christie for Universal Pictures, starring Lee Moran and Eddie Lyons
* ''Which is Witch?'' (British) 6-minute short directed by Edwin J. Collins
* ''A Witch of Salem Town'', directed by Lucius Henderson, starring Mary Fuller and Curtis Benton
* ''[[Work (1915 film)|Work]]'', directed by & starring [[Charles Chaplin]]
* ''The Wraith of Haddon Towers'', directed by Arthur Maude, starring Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude

===Y===
* ''Yurei Yashiki'' (Japanese) translation ''The Haunted House'', directed by Kyomatsu Hosomaya for Nikksatsu