Author Archive: Retro

Carousing son of an Earl is disowned “until he can earn half a crown”. The son takes a job as a gardener and falls in love with a poor minister’s daughter, who makes friends with the Earl in order to bring the family together. Would make an interesting double-feature with John Wayne’s “His Private Secretary”. Written by Maurice Tourneur. Dir. Maurice Tourneur.

A brutal, sadistic overseer runs a pearl-diving operation on a South Seas island and treats the natives terribly, torturing them and violating their women. A local native girl falls in love with him, despite his sadistic tendencies, and things come to a head when the locals can’t put up with any more of his brutality and take matters into their own hands.

Stunt-saturated Christie thrill-comedy comparable to Lloyd’s SAFETY LAST. Destitute young woman becomes a reporter and will brave any risk to get the goods on an eccentric millionaire. COLOR-TINTED.

A fearless crime reporter sets out to expose gun-runners in this jazz age thriller.

Rare excellent comedy western. Dir. Jean Yarbrough.

Liquor smugglers have the run of the Montana Territory until they wound a local lawman, and undercover agent Hoxie is on the job. Dir. Robert North Bradbury.

Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version

The film that made Garbo famous. Young married woman becomes the object of a defrocked priest’s affections. English titles. Dir. Joseph Kane.

Maynard’s first western has him at the mercy of a dissolute banker who wants Maynard’s land deed and will stop at nothing to get it! Dir. Clifford S. Elfelt