Author Archive: Retro

Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each other from the evil cattle rustler Cash Hawkins and marry. Lady Diana shows up to announce Sir Henry’s death. After Nat-U-Rich’s suicide Wynnegate takes his half-breed son and Lady Diana back to England as the new Earl of Kerhill.

In this western, Hoot Gibson arrives in town to meet with San Francisco banker Burr McIntosh, who hopes to renovate a rundown ranch. The banker and the cowboy dislike each other on sight, complicating Gibson’s romance with Ethel Shannon, the banker’s daughter.

Young man becomes romantically involved with a performer from the famous Parisian dance hall, who also happens to be the mother of his girlfriend.

The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.

The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for Wallace Reid, so this was quite a departure for him. When Bruce McDow (Rod LaRocque) refuses to go aloft to fix a rigging during a storm, and he is branded a coward. McDow believes his lack of courage is hereditary because many years before his father had taken his lightship into harbor during a storm instead of aiding a passenger liner; as a result, the liner wrecked. Because of this, Captain Hayden (George Fawcett) hates the name McDow. Hayden’s daughter, Jenny (Jacqueline Logan), however, has faith in Bruce. She helps him get a job as mate on a lightship and once again a storm blows. Captain Hayden loses a propeller while bringing his ship in. Jenny, meanwhile, has come to meet him in a yacht which goes on the rocks. Both Bruce [...]

Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.

Tired of city life, family takes a cross-country trip by automobile to the West, and comedic meyhem ensues. Dir. Stanley Donen.

Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the train she meets Gloria’s fiancé, Bob Hawley (Kenneth MacKenna). Hawley is posing as his friend, Larry Charters (Robert Frazer), a musician who is trying to dodge his many female fans. Colette and Hawley get left at a station and they ask the town’s mayor where they can spend the night. The mayor misunderstands and marries them. Since Hawley has written Charters’ name on the license (which he mistook for a hotel register), Colette isn’t sure whom she is married to. Back in Paris, Charters meets Colette and is immediately taken with her, but when his friend Bertie Bird (Raymond Griffith) shows up with a couple of young women, a lot of confusion ensues. Then Gloria arrives for more mix-ups. Colette has fallen for Charters herself, and after testing his love (and accidentally winding [...]