Roy Del Ruth Movies

The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is...

The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he...

During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.

Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy,...

A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who...

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul...

The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on...

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One...

A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming...

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake,...

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the...

If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.

Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.

Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.