William V. Ranous Movies

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

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

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

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...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of...

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature. He proposes and she accepts. She does...

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan also loves Alixe, and urges her to give up her...

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

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...

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

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,...

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

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

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...

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

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

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...