Ruth Roland Movies

A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find...

The scenes are laid in the Hudson Bay country in comparatively recent years and cover the life of a Hudson Bay factor, showing him as a young man...

The concept for Walk,—You, Walk! is as old as the battle of the sexes: When Rose’s date tries to get fresh, she walks out and teaches him...

In this rare, surviving one-reel Western from the pioneering Kalem company, Ruth Roland's fiancé, Dick, is falsely accused of robbing a bank,...

Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

A montage of 13 remarkable short films recently digitized by the Library of Congress, whose themes echo the program of the Domitor 2022 conference,...

A film by George Crone

Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car...

A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the thief.

A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.

Bill interrupts a dress rehearsal in a wooded section, being held by several society girls who are to give classical dances at an entertainment. The...

A father's strict upbringing of his beautiful but innocent young daughter may backfire on him when he finds she is being pursued by a lecherous cad...

A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with...

The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to stay independent of a cruel man who wants to marry...