Charles Magnusson

Production

Charles Magnusson

Known for

Production

Credits

18 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Phantom Carriage poster
7.7

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

The Phantom Carriage

1921

The Outlaw and His Wife poster
7.2

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.

The Outlaw and His Wife

1918

A Man There Was poster
7.1

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

A Man There Was

1917

A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession poster
NR

A film about family secrets... and deathbed confessions.

A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession

1912

The Last Performance poster
4.8

A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.

The Last Performance

1912

The Tale of  Gunnar Hede poster
6.6

Gunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business of raising and selling reindeer.

The Tale of Gunnar Hede

1923

Sir Arne's Treasure poster
7.1

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

Sir Arne's Treasure

1919

The Girl from the Marsh Croft poster
6.3

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1917

The Black Masks poster
1.0

"The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend an important official document. Lieutenant von Muehlen is a trusted member of another secret society. He is on the same mission.

The Black Masks

1912

The Great Circus Disaster poster
NR

A short film about a circus disaster produced by Charles Magnusson at Svenska Bio in 1912.

The Great Circus Disaster

1912

The Red Tower poster
NR

Professor Barclay travels with the young Dorian Holbein to the big city to oversee his violinist education.

The Red Tower

1914

Sons of Ingmar poster
6.8

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

Sons of Ingmar

1919

No artwork available
NR

A young woman is wrongfully accused of a crime. Adapted from the 1862 play by Johan Jolin.

Smiles and Tears

1913

No artwork available
8.0

People and nature in Värmland, famous for popular writer Selma Lagerlöf, is shown.

Pictures from Fryksdalen

1907

No artwork available
NR

A trip from Stockholm to Gothenburg by two canals.

A Trip from Stockholm to Göteborg Through the Göta and Trollhätte Canals

1908

No artwork available
10.0

Newsreel covering the military operation on the Swedish west coast in September 1907, where both the army and the marine participated.

War Pictures from Bohuslän

1907

The Göta Elf Catastrophe poster
5.5

Documentary short showing recovery footage of a boat accident in Göta älv.

The Göta Elf Catastrophe

1908

No artwork available
NR

Images from Children's Day 1905.

Barnens dag 1905

1905