Author Archive: Retro

Early German boxing melodrama. English titles.

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, “May you always have everything that you want.”

Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress’ daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.

A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.

Straight-shooting, hard-riding cowpoke falls hard for the daughter of a rugged cattle baron, but learns she has been kidnapped by an evil Mexican bandit.

From the poem by Sir Walter Scott.

Russian sailors on board the Potemkin stage a mutiny after they are served rotten meat, and this sparks a tragic, short-lived civilian rebellion against the Czar. Highly acclaimed landmark film taught in film schools about the Russion revolution in 1905. Written and Edited by Sergei Eisenstein. English titles. Dir. Sergei Eisenstein.

Melodrama of politics, intrigue and murder, as a blind woman falls in love with a Communist. English titles. Dir. G.W. Pabst.

With dozens of stars from the silent film era.