Author Archive: Retro

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.

A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.

1900 French film adaptation of an excerpt from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet.

It is the year 1950; women have taken over men’s jobs and have become the aggressors in romantic situations. Lizzie Hap stuffs the ballot box, defeats her opponent, Minnie Fish, and is thereby elected Fire Chief of the all female fire department, and succeeds in winning the hand of her fair loved one, Willie Wart.

The sequel to “His Trust.” The opening scene takes place four years afterwards. The war has closed, and the negroes leave to enjoy their emancipation, but George remains true to his trust. He has all these years cared for the widow and her child. The poor woman, worn with worry and heartache is stricken and dies. The care of the child devolves upon George, who takes her to the lawyer, with whom he arranges for a home for her, paying for her support one of his savings, enjoining absolute secrecy on the part of the lawyer. For several years things to along uneventfully until the child, now grown, desires to go to the seminary to procure an advanced education. To the lawyer this seems impossible, but George, when he sees the girl, breaks down and weeps, insists that he take the last of his savings and appropriate it for the purpose. This is an awful [...]

Loosely adapted from Dante’s Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.

James Harrison takes Bobby Vernon home to meet his sister, Vera Steadman. Bobby is on his best behavior, but Vera prefers wild men, so when a wild man is reported stealing chickens, James disguises himself as the thief and has Bobby drive him off