Richard Rosson Movies

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

Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow...

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...

A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.

Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to...

Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.

A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.

Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit

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

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

A silent comedy in which a jealous woman wants to catch her husband in the act of infidelity.

Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's...

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

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...

A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's...

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

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."