Richard Rosson Movies

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle...

Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for...

The Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe. Ensloe's eldest daughter Eleanor has...

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80...

The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been...

Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but...

A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson.

A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.

A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson and Richard Rosson.

The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops...

The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid...

After his father's sudden death, Dick Browning learns that three financiers swindled Mr. Browning of his money. Because his mother is destitute, Dick...

The author of a book on eugenics attempts to prove his theories by having his childless sister and her husband adopt the child of a “physically...

When he loses both his father’s canning factory and his girl “Tiny” to Stephen Douglas modest Simpson Hightower goes to work in a...

The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.

A man is so impressed with the philosophy of survival of the fittest and the rights of the strong against the weak that he tries to put these...

For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed...

Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews.