Author Archive: Retro

During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.

Middle-aged man tries to recapture his lost youth by visiting old places and acquaintances, which only seems to depress him further, until he meets a mysterious, beautiful young woman. Produced by William C. DeMille. Dir. William C. DeMille.

A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her; she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.

Stunt-packed action with Talmadge as the son of a cement company president who tries to save Dad’s business. Produced by Richard Talmadge. Dir. Jean Yarbrough.

Secret service agent must protect valuable documents from a ring of spies, one of whom is a pretty socialist that our hero falls in love with.

Epic western with Dix as a proud Native warrior who tries to make peace between his people and the newly founded America.

Reginald Denny, Betsy Lee, Sam Hardy

A sensual European countess arrives at a small American town where she quickly provokes moral outrage from the community. Upon arriving, even before she steps out of her taxi a district attorney informs her that loose women aren’t welcome here. Donning a cigarette holder she explains with a seductive smile that she comes from Italy and asks for directions to her cousins château. The femme fatales exploits include drinking, smoking in public, enticing men, wearing extravagant garments and boasting a tattoo of a skull on her forearm.

Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak seeks, Granger, is planning to rob a wagon train with the collusion of the Indians under Chief Long Knife. When Barbara is suspected of killing her lascivious stepfather, Oak takes the blame and is arrested just before he is needed to save the threatened wagon train.