Author Archive: Retro

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.

Alcoholic reporter is convinced to go straight as he tries to keep an avaricious publisher from exploiting a financially troubled newspaper.

Young girl’s upbringing by an inconsiderate mother makes her grow up to be an evil woman. Dir. Marshall Neilan.

Narcotics ring preys on teens but is intimidated by the inquest of a crusading juvenile-court judge. The bad guys involve the judge’s daughter in the ring in an attempt to stop the investigation. Produced by George Weiss.

A Romeo and Juliet type of love story.

Classic study of a mining disaster based upon an actual event that occurred in Courcieres, near the German border, more thatn a decade before WWI.

Poor orphaned girl falls for Bill, a hot-dog vendor, who dumps her for a society girl. Without Bill’s knowledge, the poor girl marries his brother, and since he doesn’t know about the wedding, he thinks they’re living in sin…what a mess! Dir. Ralph Cedar