Author Archive: Retro

Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the “Navigator” owned by Betsy’s father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.

Classic silent with a Civil War setting and involving a stolen train. Buster Keaton’s best feature film about a thrilling true locomotive chase behind enemy lines in the Civil War.

Harry Henderson, Lucia Lynn Moses. The First production by the independent Colored Players Film Company in Philadelphia. Directed by Frank Peregri

Shemp, a singing instructor, realizes that he will have to get married within 10 hours to claim $500,000 from his uncle. Shemp calls all the girls in his black book, but nobody wants to marry him, except for Shemp?s star student who is more than ready to wehim, and (to Shemp’s dismay), they start to perpare for him to marry her. However, on the way to the judge, all the women Shemp called find out about the money, and swarm to him, each demanding that he marry her. A all out fight ensues betweem the women, the boys, and each other.

The Stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the day when they discover the real murderer’s identity. Courtroom drama at its best! Absolutely hilarious!

The boys run a tailor and dry cleaning operation called the Pip Boys Cleaners. But they aren’t doing too well, and Skin & Flint Finance Corp. wants their rental money. So the boys are in trouble, until a fugitive bank robber hides in their store and loses his suit. The boys find his money in the suit, as well as a combination to a safe. When the robber and his hoods come back for the combination, mad cap action insues, ending with all the crooks on the floor.

Television pilot for a Three Stooges sitcom, where the Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wredk a hapless couples home.

The boys run a small restaurant in the Middle East, but have very few customers. When a few shady characters enter the place, they become aware of the theft of the “King Rootin’ Tootin’s Diamond”, stolen from the king’s tomb. They divise a plan to steal it back from the robber in order to return it for a reward. The Stooges then dress up like Santas to fool the guards.

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected as class president. He’s also a star baseball player and has a cute girlfriend. Thanks to the conniving of his rival, he and his family have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.