Author Archive: Retro

Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit late, inasmuch as the owner has just kicked the bucket. The mansion is full of avaricious relatives, who are obliged by the dictates of the decedent’s will to remain in the house until the authorities claim the body. Realizing that dead man’s niece Carol (Jean Parker) is a damsel in all kinds of distress, Albert decides to stick around to keep Carol from meeting her uncle’s fate. The audience knows who didn’t do it the moment Bela Lugosi shows up as a butler.

College student is blackmailed into performing a series of burglaries, and falls in love with one of his victims.

Joe is in love with a princess. He saves her from danger and becomes her knight in shining armor.

When Charlotte Sutter is kidnapped by Apaches her brother Sam aided by an old drunk prospector goes searching for her.

A couple are shipwrecked and saved by a sea captain. The ruthless man blinds the husband in a fight and his sexual advances drive the wife to suicide. Twenty years later, the husband recognizes the captain’s laugh and seeks to avenge their treatment.

Insurance investigator stirs up a hornet’s nest when he goes undercover in a gang of jewel thieves.

A gigolo is willing to reform upon discovering the wonders of true love.

A debutante resents the trouble a policeman causes her and has him kicked off the force, only to find that she must help him bust up a gangster ring. Dir. Marshall A. Neilan.

An art teacher falls for a flirtatious French student.