William V. Ranous Movies

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country swain, who makes love to Esmeralda because of her...

Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving,...

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.

A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by...

A political crime film in which a militant, anarchist father allows his political ideals to prevail over human dignity. The father uses his young...

The story of Canto V of the Inferno is briefly summarized. The film is the first edition of the better known The Two Brothers directed by James...

Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis,...

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to his little son Tad. Little Tad, playing at the...

A short romantic drama in which a captain and his wife are separated by a shipwreck. The woman ends up on a desert island with another man, and they...

Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few weeks before, Eric and Chloe are located in a...