William V. Ranous Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

Drama Short

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,...

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

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

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...

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

A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.

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...