Author Archive: Retro

Marvel Rea will inherit a lot of money if she has a husband by the time she is eighteen, so Frank Coleman kidnaps her before she can get married and so she can sing in his saloon.

A young pair of newlyweds crash into a gypsy camp, where strange encounters with love and the law await them.

Traveling salesman Joe Rock blows into town and is offered Lilian Biron as his wife if he can make the wind stop blowing.

Glen Tryon is learning to drive. He rents a car from Noah Young, gets thirty seconds of instruction from George Rowe and takes girlfriend Blanche Mehaffey for a spin in this fine Roach comedy.Tryon was the latest in a series of normal-looking comedians for Roach that had started with Harold Lloyd’s “Glass” character. While he was a capable performer and Roach’s staff knew how to make a comedy with almost anyone, there was something apparently missing, so Tryon eventually moved on to Universal and a long and successful career largely behind the camera.

Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape.

A man and his wife are having trouble financially and barely have anything to eat. The grocer and butcher visit and, seeing that the couple cannot pay them, take things from their apartment. Next, a group of men arrive and the couple quickly lock the door to the room, put on disguises and escape to the roof though the window. After a series of incidents, they discover that the men are actually there to tell the man that he has inherited a fortune.

The only way Onésime could think of to get his inheritance quicker was to set the clocks forward. Surprise: the whole world starts speeding up wildly.