Author Archive: Retro

Car salesman continually fights with his boss to let him drive in a big race, and marry his daughter. Dir. James Cruze.

After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it’s criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.

Silent version of Cooper classic about Indian guide.

One of Murray’s few surviving films. Dir. John Cromwell.

Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.

Broadway’s Elaine Hammerstein stars in this routine silent melodrama about a girl eloping with a society wastrel only to finds herself falsely accused of a theft actually committed by him. She seeks refuge with an upstanding young man and the villain is soon brought to justice. Hammerstein, who excelled in society dramas like this one, was supported by William B. Davidson as the upstanding young gent, Huntley Gordon as the thief, Louise Prussing, Colin Campbell, and Warren Cook. The Girl from Nowhere was directed by George Archainbaud and produced by Lewis J. Selznick.

Naive farm boy goes to the big city in search of his missing sister, but gets caught up in a seedy underworld filled with drugs and fast women. Dir. Norton Parker.

Fantasy about children seeking the Blue Bird of Happiness.

Flapper-era romance. Dir. John Ince.