Author Archive: Retro

A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by an courageous undercover city market official.

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.