Author Archive: Retro

Children’s story of a wild stallion that comes to the rescue. Rare dramatic role for silent funny man Chase. Produced by Hal Roach. Dir. Jean (Abbott & Costello Show) Yarbrough.

While attending Columbia University in New York, a young Sioux Indian named Sky Fire falls in love with Martha Randolph, a pretty young white girl. Things take a turn for the worse when a rejected suitor tells Martha’s father that Sky Fire is an Indian, and the father promptly refuses Martha permission to bet married. Sky Fire returns to the west, but his troubles follow him–the man who revealed his identity follows him and murders Martha’s guardian, leading to Martha’s seeking Sky Fire’s protection and a shocking conclusion for all concerned..

Rugged lumberjack takes up residence at a hotel and immediately gets in trouble by beating the hotel owner at cards and stealing his girl. Dir. William S. Hart.

Educated butler secretly loves his lord’s daughter, while a scullery maid loves the butler, and shipwreck on a remote island further confuses the situation. Written by Jeanie Macpherson.

Tough cowboy tries to bring down a no-account swindler who is also the leader of a smuggling ring.

A motherless family is thrown into crisis when the father is injured at work. With no workers’ compensation to fall back on, the eldest daughter, Mary, has to work long hours for low wages until she collapses. As a result, her coworkers band together to unionize.

Exploits of a thief and his run-ins with Scotland Yard, as well as with the wealthy citizens of London. Dir. Otto Brower and Breezy Eason.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family’s starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland’s mountains.

Raised by an Indian tribe as one of their own, a white man attempts to ward off the derision of his own race when he becomes an employee of the famous Hudson Bay Company. Action specialist B. Reeve Eason directs Raoul Walsh’s thespian brother, George Walsh, in this lower-budget programmer.