William V. Ranous Movies

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

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van...

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

In this Vitagraph short, anarchism threatens to ruin lives and families. Luigi and Rosa are a couple with an adorable child, but trouble is afoot...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.

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

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

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...

Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel

Left with two small children, Mrs. Morgan finds it difficult to make both ends meet. Polly, her daughter, does the housework. Tommy is looking for a...

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...

Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian...

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...