Author Archive: Retro

Shy, nerdy university student becomes a sports star to impress a girl with an eye for athletes.

City-educated college student returns home and must earn the respect of his father, a country-bred, no-nonsense riverboat owner who is embarassed by his son.

Keaton’s first feature film is a parody of Griffith’s “Intolerance” as he searches for true love in prehistoric, ancient and modern times. Dir. Buster Keaton.

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil badguy.

In this film, Buster Keaton stars as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly believes he has inherited $750,000. Post then gets mixed up with a two-bit theatrical troupe. Enchanted by the troupe’s libertine leading lady Eleanor Espere, the professor agrees to finance their Broadway-bound musical.

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.