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.

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

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 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...

Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing...