William V. Ranous Movies

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...

Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The father is hanged and the girl, unknowing the real...

Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...