Author Archive: Retro

William Russell plays a prizefighter with both eyes on the heavyweight crown. Russell’s nephew is freckle-faced Mickey Bennett, who idolizes his uncle to the nth degree. On the eve of the Big Fight, gangsters kidnap Bennett and order Russell to throw the fight. But the resourceful Bennett manages to escape his captors, and all’s well when the final bell rings. Julanne Johnston costars as a social worker who falls in love with likeable lug Russell.

Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.

This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that he is the master of his own fate and believes in neither God nor the Devil. Needless to say, he pays mightily for this hubris. His family is reduced to poverty, his friends desert him, and things turn from bad to worse until his childhood faith is restored.

Mom and Dad Herrington are middle-aged swingers with a son who follows in their footsteps; until he meets a nice church-going girl whose parents don’t approve of his wild ways. Written by Lewis Milestone.

Sensation Seekers is a 1927 silent film romantic drama directed by Lois Weber, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Billie Dove. The film and a trailer survive.

Jew is condemned to wander the earth forever. English titles. Dir. Otto Kreisler.

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.