Author Archive: Retro

Young debutante Bow proves that girls just wanna have fun as she hangs out with naughty women of whom her father disapproves.

Young female ex-con is taken in by a wealthy patron, but finds that she can’t escape her past when her benefactor is found murdered.

A fast-living girl becomes involved with her mother’s roguish boyfriend.

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

Robeson In His Most Memorable Role!-Cast of Thousands In Epic feature. London dockworker becomes a famous opera singer and then the rightful king of an African country.

A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.

Based on James Fenimore Cooper’s novel. Bela plays Chingachgook, an American Indian & companion of the Deerslayer. This film was believed lost for many years.

Russian opera singer flees to America for a new beginning, but must avoid the attentions of a corrupt patron.

This is one of those ‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean’ pictures. Full of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’, patriotic to the nth degree with the navy floating all over the screen. A real hero, a vamp, and a flock of thrills. Foreign agents are determined to destroy the United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet and the Panama Canal. Excellent score by Lou McMahon.