Ruth Roland Movies

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city

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

Just before he propelled the crime melodrama to new, macabre heights in The Unholy Three, Browning directed this partially lost morality tale...

Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was...

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 compilation of thirteen rare silent films digitized by the Library of Congress, selected for the 2022 Domitor conference theme “Copy/Rights...

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...

Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.

"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...

A young woman attempts to rescue her father from a gang that has kidnapped him in order to find out his secret for making "Fuelite," a substitute for...

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

Rich young playboy Gregory Kirkland reads a newspaper story about a daring robbery, and bets his friends that he can steal a famous diamond tiara,...

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.

Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth,...

A young woman tries to find out the reason behind why all of her female ancestors have been killed before they reach their 21st birthday.

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

Ruth Roland in her last role alongside Roland Drew in a mystery about murder, blackmail and stolen jewels.

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

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...