Author Archive: Retro

Russian sailors on board the Potemkin stage a mutiny after they are served rotten meat, and this sparks a tragic, short-lived civilian rebellion against the Czar. Highly acclaimed landmark film taught in film schools about the Russion revolution in 1905. Written and Edited by Sergei Eisenstein. English titles. Dir. Sergei Eisenstein.

Melodrama of politics, intrigue and murder, as a blind woman falls in love with a Communist. English titles. Dir. G.W. Pabst.

With dozens of stars from the silent film era.

Vampish exotic dancer callously seduces and uses married men, then throws them away. Dir. Fred Niblo.

Produced by Max Fleischer. Film on the topic of evolution with several animated sequences by Willis O’Brien. COLOR-TINTED. Plus EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY. Explains principles involved in Einstein’s Theory using animation.

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn’t want his girl to find about it. You guessed it, the same girl!

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

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.