Author Archive: Retro

Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard. Further mayhem ensues when chickens are set loose.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.

A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.

Working in different offices in the same commercial high rise building, twenty-one year old Harold and eighteen year old Mildred more often think about being together than they do about their work. They being close to each other on a day-to-day basis is threatened when her boss, osteopathic specialist Dr. Frank Gary, lays her off due to lack of patients. To save his romance, Harold goes on a quest for all who he deems the weak boned or muscled people he can find on the street below their building. And if they aren’t weak to begin with, he tries to show them that they are by any means possible. Harold’s efforts have some unintended consequences which may threaten his relationship with Mildred,… or so he mistakenly believes, which could lead to some other drastic action.

Our hero saves a man from drowning, only to find that it is the wrong man.

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

An American, separated from his troop, protects a helpless Russian girl from marauding Bolsheviks.

Blase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the ‘wild west ‘ by his father.