Author Archive: Retro

This two-part action-adventure film was scripted by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou and originally intended to be directed by Lang in the Spiders serial tradition. The film also features Conrad Veidt and Lya de Putti.

Merrill as castaway on a desert island.

Oscar Wilde tale where an upper-class couple’s marriage is almost ruined by suspected adultery. Considered by some to be Ernst Lubitschs’ best silent.

Garbo’s third feature. Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. Economic and moral decay.

Tragic story of love and revenge in a small town, as two “loose” women consider how to deal with a successful young man who comes to town claiming to be the son of one of them. Produced and Written by King Vidor. COLOR-TINTED.

Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine’s location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.

Irresponsible young man is sent south of the border and has many adventures.

Produced by Mrs. Wallace Reid as part of her crusade to show the folly of sin.

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