Author Archive: Retro

Tough cowboy tries to bring down a no-account swindler who is also the leader of a smuggling ring.

A motherless family is thrown into crisis when the father is injured at work. With no workers’ compensation to fall back on, the eldest daughter, Mary, has to work long hours for low wages until she collapses. As a result, her coworkers band together to unionize.

Exploits of a thief and his run-ins with Scotland Yard, as well as with the wealthy citizens of London. Dir. Otto Brower and Breezy Eason.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family’s starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland’s mountains.

Raised by an Indian tribe as one of their own, a white man attempts to ward off the derision of his own race when he becomes an employee of the famous Hudson Bay Company. Action specialist B. Reeve Eason directs Raoul Walsh’s thespian brother, George Walsh, in this lower-budget programmer.

Russian laborer becomes a scab during a workers’ strike, and is then coerced into joining the military just before the October Revolution. English titles. Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin.

Kirby kills a man in self-defense and becomes a fugitive from the police.

Lang’s conclusive masterpiece of futuristic fantasy depicts life in the year 2000, as a member of the idle ruling class goes underground to see how the dehumanized working class gets along. Excellent, ahead-of-its-time, Sci-Fi/Fantasy film that defined a genre. Produced by Erich Pommer. English titles. Dir. Fritz Lang