Author Archive: Retro

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.

Psychological triangle wherein a doctor’s neglected wife looks for love in the form of her husband’s best friend. English titles. Dir. Abel Gance.

Caught by the Piutes, pony Express Rider Dick Carter falls in love with pretty Dorothy Earle, who belongs to that seemingly endless supply of white girls kidnapped in childhood and raised by Indians. Unfortunately, Dorothy is promised to Bud Osborne, described in a title as “a renegade white who dominates the simple minds of the savage horde.” Does Dorothy succeed in taking her own life rather than face an uncertain future with evil Bud? Or does the stalwart Dick rescue her in time?

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.