Author Archive: Retro

She (Lenore Aubert) poses as the masked swashbuckler (Martin Kosleck) to foil the police chief (John Loder) in 1830s Paris.

A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.

The Lost Zeppelin offers a bonanza of special effects and art-deco sets with a nickel’s worth of plot. The film begins at a banquet celebrating an upcoming dirigible expedition to Antarctica. Explorer Donald Hall (Conway Tearle) knows that his protégé, lieutenant Tom Armstrong (Ricardo Cortez) is in love with Hall’s young wife Miriam (Virginia Valli). Just when this plotline reaches its saturation point, it is forgotten in the excitement of the daring dirigible voyage. Utterly modernistic in design and equipped with every possible convenience and provision, the big blimp nonetheless meets disaster in the snowy wastes of “Little America.” Somewhat slow-moving for most of its running time, The Lost Zeppelin really picks up the pace in its closing reels and remains among the most impressive of the early independent talkies.

A drama about a group of women living in a Hollywood boarding house including a former star and a self-centered beauty contest winner.

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

One of three films made in the sixannounced Morton of the Mounted series: Sergeant Bruce Morton (John Preston ), in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is informed by White Feather (Chief Whire Feather ), an Indian furtrapper, that for many months, most of the local fur trappers have been systematically robbed, but refuses to name the robbers, fearing for his life. Morton, his horse Dynamite (Dynamite the Horse ), his dog Captain (Captain King of Dogs ), and a RCMP corporal, Jimmy Downs (Jimmy Aubrey ), set out to apprehend the culprits. After rescuing Yvonne Travis (June Love ) from the treacherous waters of Horse Shoe Rapids, Morton learns that her father is a fur trader indebted to Monty Mordant (Tom London ), who runs the trading post, and Mordant is using her father’s debt to force Yvonne to marry him. Morton decides that Mordant could bear watching, [...]

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.

A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she’s the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.