Author Archive: Retro

Spanish nobleman Valentino is kidnapped by smugglers bound for Mexico. While at sea, they come upon a plundered vessel with a sole survivor, a beautiful woman, whom Valentino protects by dressing her as a man.

Impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer and falls in love with his secretary. Complications abound when Rodrigo is pursued by a gold-digger who believes he’s still wealthy and becomes romantically torn between the two women. Original music score by Blaine L. Gale.

When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset’s cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.

Rise and fall of a peasant boy who becomes Spain’s most famous Matador, but is seduced by a scheming woman. Valentino’s most famous role.

A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family’s land, only to fall for his charming daughter.

Happy-go-lucky orphan girl is adopted by a cold-hearted, bitter aunt and tries to bring gladness to everyone she meets.

Title character is neglected by her fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills, making her dangerously ill.

A young girl, stifling on her father’s backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Pickford’s remake of her 1914 film of the same title.