Author Archive: Retro

A look at various people’s lives as they travel by means of a new high-speed train across the country. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone.

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.

Man invests in a gold mine which seems to be paying off, and as a result his children begin to put on airs. Dir. Walter Lang.

In this story, which derives its name from a line from Othello, an actor playing Othello nearly kills his wife during Desdemona’s death scene. Unfortunately, the plot is heavy, the dialogue verbose, and the action nonexistent.

When a circus carousel operator learns he is the illegitimate son of a wealthy baron, he moves in with his father and sets his sights on becoming an aristocrat. Attracted to the Baron’s beautiful but distant young ward, he discovers that overcoming his lowly background is a seeminly insurmountable task in the sophisticated world of the wealthy.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.