Author Archive: Retro

Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.

Writer checks into the Baldpate Inn, and makes a bet with the owner that he can begin a novel at midnight and finish it before midnight of the next day. Written by Hugh Ford.

A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns with him to his ranch, where he lives with his elderly father. The father, not used to sharing his son’s attentions with anyone, takes an instant dislike to the new wife, and proceeds to make life as miserable for her as possible, including trying to turn his son against her. When a drifter shows up looking for work, the old man sees his chance.

Karl Heinrich, Germany’s young, bored and lonely heir apparent, is sent to the University of Heidelberg where he becomes enamored with an innkeeper’s daughter, but is forced to choose between love and duty. Written by John Emerson. Supervised by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Marcel Varnel

First feature version of tale.

Medicine Man Doctor Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still locked strongbox is opened only to find the money missing and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner now set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.

A railroad worker accepts a colleague’s offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man’s wife.

Classic tale of man who is torn away from his family and unjustly imprisoned for years before he can make his escape and realize his plans for revenge.

Former safecracker comes home from the war and is torn between loyalty to his old gang and the principles he learned in the army. Written by Lambert Hillyer. Dir. Lambert Hillyer.