Author Archive: Retro

The true life story of Harry Tracy.

When the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne.

About a vicious highway man in the 1700’s

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.

The story follows a Polish professor and his family who have become refugees in the aftermath of World War I. They try to survive in Germany during the period of the Great Inflation. Carol Dempster is Inga, a Polish war orphan who struggles to provide for the family that has taken her in, while accumulating a meager dowry from the rubble of depression-stricken Berlin so that she can marry Paul. Returning to his family, weakened by the battlefront’s poisonous gases, Paul invests in his and Inga’s future by tending a secret garden which he hopes will provide the resources for them to live, and which serves as a symbol of optimism for the two young lovers.

Story of romance between Mary Philban and Norman Kerry, who were also the stars of “The Phantom of the Opera”.

Adulterous story of infidelity and misunderstandings. Dir. Lois Weber.

Max Linder directs and stars as Dart-In-Again is this comedy spoof on The Three Musketeers. The three swordsmen are portrayed by members of the Mezotti acrobatic troupe. Bull Montana is King Rich-Lou, with Frank Cooke as King Louis XIII and Catherine Rankin as the Queen. Her majesty is aided by the lady-in-waiting Connie (Jobyna Ralston). Ralston would later be a leading lady for Harold Lloyd in many features in the 1920’s, and this performance is her film debut. This was the last American film made by the talented comic before he returned to France. Tragically, he was plagued by severe depression that ultimately led to his suicide — and the suicide of his 21-year-old wife Helen Peters — on October 30, 1925. Charlie Chaplin listed Linder as one of his greatest comic heroes and helped with the promotion and distribution of this feature. When the film failed to do well at the box office, Linder [...]

Shopgirl is told by a fortune teller that she is a Spanish princess reincarnated, and the young girl’s imagination runs rampant.