Author Archive: Retro

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.

This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local socialite Bedelia Smith. Unfortunately, he neglects to learn her name, and in desperation decides to consult a mystic Swami to determine who she is. Meanwhile, Bedelia’s slothful nephew Charlie spends his evenings entertaining an imaginary Hindu Prince and grows exhausted by the task, especially after the prince starts keeping him up late at night. When Charlie’s mother decides to have a local soiree, Charlie suddenly gets pressured to bring the prince to the affair.

Impulsive Irish immigrant comes to America and gets a job as a streetcar operator, where he saves the life of the company president’s son, falls in love with his daughter, and must save the firm from a hostile takeover.

A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger’s roadhouse.

A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.

Bespectacled Creighton Hale and 1923 Wampas Baby Star Virginia Brown Faire headlined this domestic drama from low-budget Chesterfield. Maintaining that Harvey Baremore (Hale) is stealing from his company, his employer John Kimball (Lloyd Whitlock) suggests that Mrs. Baremore (Faire) pays her husband’s debt with her “friendship.” As it turns out, the whole affair is concocted by Kimball to expose Baremore for the adulterer that he is: Discovered with a gold-digging blonde (Florence Dudley), Harvey makes a quick escape but is killed in a car accident.