Author Archive: Retro

A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love one another. The village snoop feels the child would be better off in an orphanage and the sheriff is sent to try to take the child away.

Mary Pickford comedy about a laundress dreaming of romance.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker’s wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Rufus Billops was never believed to survive as a newborn. He’s lived through infancy and childhood surrounded by doctors and medicines, worried over his frail health, becoming an accomplished hypochondriac on his own merits. When three partners consider his case a good investment in exchange for future fortune, a wise doctor prescribes him a Lovely View to behold from his ailing bed, and everything begins to change.

Desert chieftain abducts an English heiress to be his bride, then must rescue her from a rival. Dir. George Melford.

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.