Author Archive: Retro

Mount Vesuvius is the backdrop for this story of an Italian aristocrat who is forced from her home by a scheming sister, and becomes a nun when she hears a report of her lover’s death. Filmed on location in Italy. Dir. Henry King.

An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.

Dir. D.W. Griffith. Weepy Victorian melodrama with beautiful and stylish photography. Sensitive performances. Gish is protected from the violence of life on the docks of the London Limehouse district.

Poor, innocent young girl is tricked into believing she is married to a cad, who then leaves her destitute, with child and looked down on by society. Produced by D.W. Griffith.

Controversial, sweeping drama of the American South before and after the Civil War, including the rise of the KKK. Dir. D.W. Griffith On A.F.I.’s top 100 of all time.

Griffith”‘s sweeping epic detailing four eras (Judean, Midieval French, Babylonian, and Present Day) of predjudice and inhumanity. Intense, melodramatic, influential film that set the stage for American cinema to come. Produced, Written, Directed, Edited, and Score Arranged by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Herbert Wilcox.

Elaborate sets as well as fights in the Fairbanks’ fashion highlight this production of the classic tale of Robin and the Merry Men as they fight against tyranny.

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son – an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France.

Entomologist falls for a wealthy industrialist’s daughter, who is engaged to a Malted Milk Magnate that is illegally shipping gunpowder to Mexico. Written by Anita Loos. Dir. Lloyd Ingraham.