Author Archive: Retro

A fast-living girl becomes involved with her mother’s roguish boyfriend.

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

Robeson In His Most Memorable Role!-Cast of Thousands In Epic feature. London dockworker becomes a famous opera singer and then the rightful king of an African country.

A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.

Based on James Fenimore Cooper’s novel. Bela plays Chingachgook, an American Indian & companion of the Deerslayer. This film was believed lost for many years.

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