Author Archive: Retro

A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she’s traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don’t share her boyfriend’s attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.

Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.

Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.

Propagandist drama about the strikes affecting Russian home front during WWI. English titles. Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko.

Shy Aussie sheep herder vacationing on the French Riviera falls for a princess who is being held captive.

Murder and guilt in a small European village. Dir. Erich Pommer.

Futuristic story of a Russian scientist who builds a rocket and flies to Mars. English titles.

A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who’s helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.

This silent western drama from Sunset Productions stars Kenneth MacDonald (The Coast Patrol, Dynamite Dan), Billy “Red” Jones (Sparrows, The Phantom Flyer), and Gordon Sackville (The Best Man, One Way Trail), with direction by Grover Jones (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Trouble in Paradise).
Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss’s lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he’ll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn’t about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good… Will Jimmie’s fortune come true? [...]