Author Archive: Retro

With dozens of stars from the silent film era.

Vampish exotic dancer callously seduces and uses married men, then throws them away. Dir. Fred Niblo.

Produced by Max Fleischer. Film on the topic of evolution with several animated sequences by Willis O’Brien. COLOR-TINTED. Plus EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY. Explains principles involved in Einstein’s Theory using animation.

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn’t want his girl to find about it. You guessed it, the same girl!

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father’s shadow and reflects only his dark side.

After ten years of marriage, a couple finds they have nothing in common and get a divorce, but when they meet up again under different circumstances, will that old spark of love be rekindled? Look fast for William Boyd, who made his film debut in this movie as an extra.

A German Shepherd puppy is “adopted” by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.