Author Archive: Retro

On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father’s shadow and reflects only his dark side.

After ten years of marriage, a couple finds they have nothing in common and get a divorce, but when they meet up again under different circumstances, will that old spark of love be rekindled? Look fast for William Boyd, who made his film debut in this movie as an extra.

A German Shepherd puppy is “adopted” by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.

French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian revolutionary movement.

Silent film drama depicts effect on everyone as color blindness becomes a concern due to “railroad improvements”, the color light block signal.

This independently made lumber camp melodrama hinges on the fact that the leading man receives a transfusion of wolf blood — a medical treatment that would be considered grounds for a malpractice suit nowadays. Dick Bannister (George Chesbro, who also co-directed) is the boss of the Ford Logging Company. When many of his men receive injuries from their constant fights with the employees of a rival company, Bannister sends for medical help. Company owner Edith Ford (Marguerite Clayton) arrives with Dr. Eugene Horton (Ray Hanford). Although Dr. Horton is interested in her, Edith falls in love with Bannister. The lumber boss suffers a severe injury, and Dr. Horton gives him a transfusion of wolf blood. While in a fever, Bannister believes he has become half-man and half-beast and he gets up from his sick bed to answer the call of a wolf pack. Edith chases after him and saves him from falling over a cliff. [...]

Spooky ghost is on the loose, tearing around in a racecar stealing important documents. Dir. Charles Hines.

Italian silent epic based on Flaubert’s novel.

A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woman to seduce his son, and then blackmail the father into going along with their scheme.