Author Archive: Retro

There is dirty work afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn’t around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp freighter and gets the jockey in his debt through a crooked gambling game. Airplanes, ship-wrecks, sea storms, kidnapping, frame-up and much skull-duggery prior to the race.

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

To keep his brother from the gallows, Warner assumes the blame for a shooting and heads for Montana. There he helps his sweetheart recover a map to a rich mining claim. One of Warner’s few surviving films. Written by Robert North Bradbury.

Last silent version of the famous story of a hidden land and its immortal queen. Original titles by H. Rider Haggard.

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?

Soon after his release from an unjust imprisonment, a man is again implemented in a crime, this time the murder of his wife’s lover. He and his daughter escape to a South Pacific isle where they must try to start life anew. Produced by D.W. Griffith. Dir. D.W. Griffith.

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

Very rare crime drama as three gangsters pull off a major heist and hide out in a mountain cabin where paranoia and distrust take over.

This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting bad grades, and swipes his neighbor’s car so he can take his girl to the dance. Afterward, he and his buddies begin playing “chicken” and the lad destroys his neighbor’s rig. He then takes it to a body shop, unknowing that it is really run by crooks who use the cars for robberies. The innocent youth and his gal end up working as getaway drivers while the crooks rob his father’s company. The crooks shoot his father during the heist and then threaten to kill him unless he drives. They force him to go the speed limit so as not to attract undue attention. The ever-defiant youth does just the opposite and peels off towards the police department where all ends happily.