Author Archive: Retro

Russian opera singer flees to America for a new beginning, but must avoid the attentions of a corrupt patron.

This is one of those ‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean’ pictures. Full of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’, patriotic to the nth degree with the navy floating all over the screen. A real hero, a vamp, and a flock of thrills. Foreign agents are determined to destroy the United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet and the Panama Canal. Excellent score by Lou McMahon.

Constance Talmadge plays a double role in this comedy co-starring Ronald Colman, George K. Arthur, and Margaret Mano. Helen leaves home after an argument with her husband Joseph. He follows her to Vienna where he mistakes the dancer Lola for his wife. Double-exposure photography allows for Talmadge to appear in the same scene as two different characters. After a comic case of mistaken identity involving the two women, Helen and Joseph vow to resolve their differences

Tough cowboy with a troubled past hopes a good woman can save him, but he finds out she is being victimized by her uncle. Written by William S. Hart. Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Dir. William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer

When her date stands her up, Tessie (Gloria Swanson) a department store clerk, attends a studio party and makes a hit doing impersonations. With Tom Moore.

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

Tough reporter is fired for going after a gangster who happens to be one of the paper’s big advertisers. Dir. Gregory La Cava.

Italian silent epic on the life of Christ.

Young woman & her family are saved from Indian attack by a Mormon community, but are forced into a world of bigamy, rape and suicide.