Author Archive: Retro

Poet walking through a wax museum imagines each figurine coming to life and relating their story., Written by Henrik Galeen.

Wally returns from prison having been framed by outlaw Bowers and Banker Brown. When Wally and Bowers fight, Wally is jailed. Getting the Sheriff and posse out of town, Bowers robs Brown’s bank to get the note implicating him in Wally’s crime. Helen seeing the robbery frees Wally who starts out single handed after the gang.

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly- arrived “stranger” for his money.

A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from “Mary Brown”, an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical “strong man”, Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown… and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.

Young “Fatty” Finn and his friends enter their pet goat in a race, but his rival “Bruiser” Murphy lets the goat loose, right before the race.

Independent milkman Jimmy Burke (Johnny Hines) exchanges clothes with a wealthy young man for a costume party. While he’s there he befriends a pretty girl who he thinks is a maid, but is actually Jean Blair, president of the Milk Trust (Sigrid Holmquist). Burke takes her for a ride on his milk wagon and a romance blossoms. Meanwhile, George Fairchild, who manages the Trust (Wyndham Standing), is involved in crooked business deals. Burke catches wind of the schemes and he organizes the independent milkmen, who appoint him president. Fairchild tries to buy him out and Burke discovers that Jean is the Trust’s president. He believes the girl was deceiving him, but she is completely naïve of Fairchild’s machinations. She fires Fairchild, and in retaliation, he poisons the milk being delivered by the independents. Burke destroys the early deliveries and rushes to save Jean, who has been tied to a conveyor belt that is headed for [...]

The simple-minded son of a rich financier must find his own way in the world.

Beau Nash is a “gentleman crook” who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire–aka “Lady Byron”–swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald–and his new love, Claire–a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.

Mrs. Wiggs, a loving mother whose husband has abandoned her, supports her many children and lives in hope of her husband’s return.