Author Archive: Retro

Two actors silently portray the biblical protagonists as they flit about misty Eden.

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering; the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God’s favor.

The Story of Jesus, filmed in Judea. A print of this film was sent to a French convent in 1928, and over 200,000 frames have been hand-COLORED by nuns.

Dir. Thomas Ince. Jesus walks through blotty battlefields in this classic silent about the horror and trajedy of war.

Mystical atmosphere highlights this fantasy of a man who is revived after being frozen alive for 100 years, and meets his reincarnated true love. Written by Harry Houdini.

The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach’s adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.

Orphan girl goes from a royal marriage to white slavery to great wealth in this unfinished Stroheim epic. Produced by Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy. Written by Erich von Stroheim, his last film.

Artist is framed by Clark and sent to jail when she rejects his advances. Clark becomes a WWI spy for the Germans and continues to threaten the artist’s life, now that she’s out of prison and married to a wealthy philanthropist.

Fanatical missionary falls in love with a ribald, good-hearted prostitute in the South Seas. Based on the novel “Rain” by W. Somerset Maugham.