Movies: William V. Ranous

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....

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III....

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor....

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 have a relationship. When they are saved by the captain, he decides to stay behind on the island, alo...

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

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 not suspect his occupation. Turning Over a New Leaf: The thieves' den. The gang drinking and playing ...

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

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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 her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his f...

Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving, distinctly objects to Emily, his daughter, marrying Bob until he has a practice....

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 boat landing of the White House lake, falls into the water and is saved from drowning by a young fellow ...

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 Stuart Blackton which was released in theaters the following year, 1908....

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

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van Sickles, but each time the fates are against him. Marion and her mother are on their way home from a ...

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 Francesca. Both are overjoyed at the union of the two great houses in marriage, and the daughter retir...

A political crime film in which a militant, anarchist father allows his political ideals to prevail over human dignity. The father uses his young daughter to carry out an attack on Princess Louise. After his wife foils the attack and he is arrested b...

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

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, the daughter of Lady Olivia Gower, a leading social light in Calcutta....