Author Archive: Retro

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.

Fired from his job for shirking his duties, the ‘Knight of the Plains’ Bart Miller stumbles across a would-be stagecoach robbery and he rescues damsel in distress Betty Taylor. He takes Betty and her pretty girlfriends to the ranch of her father Bill Taylor. Meanwhile Taylor’s foreman Luke Hatton is plotting to rustle his boss’ herd with the aid of the corrupt lawyer Harkness.

In ancient Egypt, an evil priest drove a pure maiden to suicide. In today’s reincarnation, to free himself the priest must find and help the maiden…now a young American singing student, Sunya Ashling, who is torn between pursuing a career in European opera, going to South America with fianc?e Paul, or saving her father from financial ruin by marrying wealthy Robert Goring. The ancient priest, reincarnated as a gypsy vagabond, grants her visions of her future life if she should follow each of the three roads. Does each have a fatal drawback?

Car salesman continually fights with his boss to let him drive in a big race, and marry his daughter. Dir. James Cruze.

After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it’s criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.

Silent version of Cooper classic about Indian guide.

One of Murray’s few surviving films. Dir. John Cromwell.