Author Archive: Retro

A U.S. marshal sets out to bring in a Mexican bandit accused of killing his girlfriend’s father, but it turns out that there’s more to the story than there first appears to be.

Looks like the film that might have inspired Hugo Hass to make one like it twice a year in the early fifties. Connie (June Lang) is all smitten with lighthouse keeper Sam Wells (Don Castle), but he brushes her off and she ups and marries his fellow-lighthouse keeper Hank Armitage (John Litel) out of spite. All three live together in the close confines of the lighthouse and jealously and recrimination rise nearly as high inside as the pounding surf and howling winds outside. It also begins to look like an Edgar G. Ulmer) film, if it wasn’t so semi-rational. Sam is pleased with the situation that appears to him to promise action with no responsibilities. But Connie, in addition to rebuffing Sam’s unwanted passes, is actually falling in love with ol’ Hank. Trouble is brewing.

Early Talkie

Adventure about Scottish regiment in India.

The son of a famed desert sheik exacts his revenge against the bandits who wronged a dancing girl. Valentino’s last film. COLOR TINTED. Dir. William Nigh.

German silent epic about the Trojan War.

Silent German film about Jewish life in Russia.