Author Archive: Retro

Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith’s daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.

Town idler must find the bank embezzlers who murdered a small-town bank teller, who happens to be his girlfriend’s father.

A reporter writing the story of the Average Woman, discovers he is falling for the plain Jane he is basing his story on.

Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend’s charge and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.

Producer Joe Schenck reportedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars (an immense sum in those days) for the film rights to the stage play written by Jane Murfin and actress Jane Cowl (as a vehicle for herself). But it was money well spent, because it was a success for his wife, Norma Talmadge, who starred. On the wedding day of Moonyeen (Talmadge) and John Carteret (Wyndham Standing), her former suitor, Jeremiah Wayne (Harrison Ford), kills her. Carteret, as a result, grows into a bitter old man. He winds up raising his niece Kathleen, who grows up to look exactly like Moonyeen (because she’s also played by Talmadge). When she falls in love with Kenneth Wayne, the nephew of the hated Jeremiah (Ford once again), Carteret does everything he can to oppose the match. But love wins out in the end, both in real life with the young people, and in the spirit world, when Carteret’s dead sweetheart [...]

Russian peasant becomes a soldier, and rises quickly through the ranks, but harbors a secret love for the daughter of a commanding officer.

Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each other from the evil cattle rustler Cash Hawkins and marry. Lady Diana shows up to announce Sir Henry’s death. After Nat-U-Rich’s suicide Wynnegate takes his half-breed son and Lady Diana back to England as the new Earl of Kerhill.

In this western, Hoot Gibson arrives in town to meet with San Francisco banker Burr McIntosh, who hopes to renovate a rundown ranch. The banker and the cowboy dislike each other on sight, complicating Gibson’s romance with Ethel Shannon, the banker’s daughter.