William V. Ranous Movies

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...

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

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

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Drama Short

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

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

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

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

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

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

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...

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

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...

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,...

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 silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.

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