Author Archive: Retro

Bentley accepts an editorial position for a magazine entitled “Profile.”

Members of a secret “trust” that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim’s widow enlists Sherlock Holmes’ help. The atmospheric doings involve coded messages, a pretty heiress, sinister villains, and a country mansion with a secret passage. The story bears no relation to the novel of the same name.

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.

Josephine Baker stars as a Tunisian shepherdess who becomes a Parisian socialite.