Author Archive: Retro

A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Rufus Billops was never believed to survive as a newborn. He’s lived through infancy and childhood surrounded by doctors and medicines, worried over his frail health, becoming an accomplished hypochondriac on his own merits. When three partners consider his case a good investment in exchange for future fortune, a wise doctor prescribes him a Lovely View to behold from his ailing bed, and everything begins to change.

Desert chieftain abducts an English heiress to be his bride, then must rescue her from a rival. Dir. George Melford.

There is dirty work afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn’t around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp freighter and gets the jockey in his debt through a crooked gambling game. Airplanes, ship-wrecks, sea storms, kidnapping, frame-up and much skull-duggery prior to the race.

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

To keep his brother from the gallows, Warner assumes the blame for a shooting and heads for Montana. There he helps his sweetheart recover a map to a rich mining claim. One of Warner’s few surviving films. Written by Robert North Bradbury.

Last silent version of the famous story of a hidden land and its immortal queen. Original titles by H. Rider Haggard.

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?