Author Archive: Retro

Bespectacled wimp is hijacked as a prank by several members of a diamond smuggler’s gang, and is believed to be a spy by the gang’s leader. Supervised and Produced by Douglas Fairbanks.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Cecil B. DeMille epic: biblical Exodus story and modern morality tale.

Lowly clerk in a New York button factory takes up the philosophy that a person may have anything he wants if he concentrates on it. This costs him his job, but he soon finds he has been proclaimed King in the country of Vulgaria. Written by Anita Loos and John Emerson. Dir. Edmund Goulding.