Author Archive: Retro

Silent film drama depicts effect on everyone as color blindness becomes a concern due to “railroad improvements”, the color light block signal.

This independently made lumber camp melodrama hinges on the fact that the leading man receives a transfusion of wolf blood — a medical treatment that would be considered grounds for a malpractice suit nowadays. Dick Bannister (George Chesbro, who also co-directed) is the boss of the Ford Logging Company. When many of his men receive injuries from their constant fights with the employees of a rival company, Bannister sends for medical help. Company owner Edith Ford (Marguerite Clayton) arrives with Dr. Eugene Horton (Ray Hanford). Although Dr. Horton is interested in her, Edith falls in love with Bannister. The lumber boss suffers a severe injury, and Dr. Horton gives him a transfusion of wolf blood. While in a fever, Bannister believes he has become half-man and half-beast and he gets up from his sick bed to answer the call of a wolf pack. Edith chases after him and saves him from falling over a cliff. [...]

Spooky ghost is on the loose, tearing around in a racecar stealing important documents. Dir. Charles Hines.

A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woman to seduce his son, and then blackmail the father into going along with their scheme.

A cowboy seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a bar-room brawl. While searching for him, he comes across a wild stallion that he is determined to capture and break, and unknowingly falls in love with the daughter of the man who shot him.

Family’s unhappy ties are changed when a young woman enters the household. Dir. Lois Weber.

Description:scription: Small town litigator wins a big case and is lured to the big city by a presitgious law firm. Unfortunately, the move wreaks havok on his faithful wife, as her rural ways clash with the movers and shakers of her husbands new social world.

A classic melodrama is featured in this film that is listed as a romantic adventure.