Author Archive: Retro

Joe Laird (Carl Gantvoort) is a railroad clerk who works to support his lazy wife Gladys (Betty Brice) and their two young children. He gets a promotion as secretary to the company president and asks his mother May (Claire McDowell) to live with the family after she loses her home. May is a Christian Scientist faith healer who cures her grandson’s crippled limb. When his Joe’s boss’s daughter suffers back injuries from a fall, May is called on to pray for the girl’s health in this religious propaganda drama.

Outlaw is wounded on his last heist and is nursed back to health by a kindly miner and his pretty daughter. He tries to go straight, but his past catches up to him when two miners recognize him from a wanted poster.

Young woman waits anxiously for a letter from her missing lover. English titles.

Trainwreck near the Grand Canyon sends two couples three hundred years into the past. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille.

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfe’s. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.

Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn but, when Juliet’s name is involved in murder, he marries Viola and takes her to Paris.

An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer’s father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself–not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him–and refuses to let his son marry her. Complications ensue.

During a vacation in the Alps, a famous surgeon’s neglected wife is wooed by an Austrian cavalry officer. Written by Erich von Stroheim. Dir. Erich von Stroheim.

The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC’s Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the sweet, old-fashioned type and the younger is a jazz-age flapper who takes whatever falls her way. Mame, the older, goes on vacation and returns home to find that her kid sister, Janie, has vamped her way into the arms of Mame’s intended.