Author Archive: Retro

This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local socialite Bedelia Smith. Unfortunately, he neglects to learn her name, and in desperation decides to consult a mystic Swami to determine who she is. Meanwhile, Bedelia’s slothful nephew Charlie spends his evenings entertaining an imaginary Hindu Prince and grows exhausted by the task, especially after the prince starts keeping him up late at night. When Charlie’s mother decides to have a local soiree, Charlie suddenly gets pressured to bring the prince to the affair.

Impulsive Irish immigrant comes to America and gets a job as a streetcar operator, where he saves the life of the company president’s son, falls in love with his daughter, and must save the firm from a hostile takeover.

A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger’s roadhouse.

A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.

Bespectacled Creighton Hale and 1923 Wampas Baby Star Virginia Brown Faire headlined this domestic drama from low-budget Chesterfield. Maintaining that Harvey Baremore (Hale) is stealing from his company, his employer John Kimball (Lloyd Whitlock) suggests that Mrs. Baremore (Faire) pays her husband’s debt with her “friendship.” As it turns out, the whole affair is concocted by Kimball to expose Baremore for the adulterer that he is: Discovered with a gold-digging blonde (Florence Dudley), Harvey makes a quick escape but is killed in a car accident.

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.

In this silent comedic action-adventure, a fraternity bet prompts a young college student to spontaneously propose marriage then follow the pretty young lady who rejected him all the way to China. There he plays protector for her and her missionary father when they’re besieged by miscreants.

A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girl friend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim. In a sandstorm he is able to shoot Weston and leave the prospector for dead in the desert. Lobo tries to get a message to May, but runs afoul of Horton. Finally, [...]

FIRST filming of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel about Lord and Lady Greystoke, who are shipwrecked in a remote jungle, and their offspring who becomes The Lord of the Apes. Written by Scott Sidney.