Author Archive: Retro

A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts–if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.

John Benson is an inventor, but not a particularly successful one, and spends a lot of time drinking. His son Billy, in turn, spends a lot of time defending his father, often with his fists, and consequently has few friends. One day, however, one of John’s inventions actually works, and crooked lawyer Sidney Martin and his cohort, Walter Howe, think it can make money so they plan to steal it. They frame Benson and get him thrown in jail. Billy has to clear his father’s name, get him out of jail and take the invention back from the two crooks.

Happy-go-lucky cowboy must go after his best friend when the latter joins an outlaw gang. Based on the novel and play by Owen Wister.

A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she commits suicide. When her brother finds out what happened, he turns to a life of banditry, hoping to find the gang responsible for his sister’s death.

Down on his luck high school student takes a job as a potato-peeler at the Naval Academy, hoping that he may one day attend the institution. Dir. William Witney.

Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan’s African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.

Classic Alexandre Dumas love story about an unsophisticated law student who forsakes his family and career when he falls passionately in love with Camille, a notorious Parisian courtesan. With original music score by Blaine L. Gale.

After being snubbed by his true love, a wealthy young man masquerades as a butler so he can be near the girl that he loves.

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what “the real world” is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph’s child.