Author Archive: Retro

Futuristic story of a Russian scientist who builds a rocket and flies to Mars. English titles.

A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who’s helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.

This silent western drama from Sunset Productions stars Kenneth MacDonald (The Coast Patrol, Dynamite Dan), Billy “Red” Jones (Sparrows, The Phantom Flyer), and Gordon Sackville (The Best Man, One Way Trail), with direction by Grover Jones (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Trouble in Paradise).
Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss’s lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he’ll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn’t about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good… Will Jimmie’s fortune come true? [...]

Ginger grows up in a slow town. Because of her wild attitude, her father decides to send her to a strict boarding school. Despite the strictness, the girls have fun getting into flapper lifestyle trouble including flirting.

Groundbreaking film tells the story of a Russian family shattered by the 1905 uprising, as a mother betrays her strike-breaking son to the police. Written by Vsevolod Pudovkin. English titles. Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel.

Feature version of serial “The Lost City” (1920). Group of adventurers with varied backgrounds join together for a safari into the heart of Africa, where they find a lost white race. Produced by William N. Selig.

A hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart.

Silent adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel, set during the French and Indian War. Produced by Maurice Tourneur. Dir. Maurice Tourneur.

An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl’s father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols.