Author Archive: Retro

Remarque’s engrossing romantic wartime melodrama. Hopkins, as Ravic, is a German citizen who helped Jewish people escape from the murderous anti-Semitic Fatherland. He spent time in a concentration camp & has a horrible scar as a reminder. He lives without papers in Paris, under a false name, aware always that the minute the gendarmes near him he could be sent away or imprisoned as an illegal alien. He dreams of the day he can revenge himself on the Gestapo officer who sent him away, who tortured his friends & who tortured & raped his only love, Sybil.

Charles Dickens’ favorite child was David Copperfield. His is the tale of success triumphing over adversity. A must-see for the entire family. Stars Robin Phillips as David Copperfield.

Gripping drama based on Richard Wright’s controversial novel about a young black chauffeur who accidentally kills his employer’s daughter. Dir. Victor Halperin.

Adaptation of “La Boheme”. First feature film in TWO-COLOR TECHNIColor.

In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties. While writing the fictional “The Last of the Belles,” Fitzgerald works out his relationship with Zelda during WWI.

In the film Chaney portrays another of the character roles that dubbed him The Man of a Thousand Faces, a Chinese laundry worker who is caught in a tangle of extortion and small-town prejudice.

Faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic with Hicks as the Christmas-hating miser. Dir. Henry Edwards

Cryano, master of sword and poetry is doomed to live with a face of ugliness. He uses the voice of his rival to deliver his message of love to the woman he admires. Famous story of the poetic cavalier who, because of a substantial nasal endowment, finds himself too ugly to be loved. Dir. Michael Gordon. Academy award for Ferrer’s performance.

A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.