Author Archive: Retro

Ship’s captain, deserted by his wife, becomes sadistic and cruel, taking out his frustrations on a girl that his crew has rescued.

This Nazimova produced film is based on the scandalous play of the same name by Oscar Wilde. Salome, daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea with a sensual dance. In return for this “favor” he promises her the head of John The Baptist. An interesting look at one of the silent screen’s most fascinating personalities. Dir. Charles Bryant

A woman must prove her father innocent of murder.

A Sailor-Made Man is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Newmeyer and starring Harold Lloyd.

Eve’s Leaves is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Leatrice Joy and William Boyd. The film was produced and distributed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Paul Sloane It is based upon the 1925 play of the same name by Harry Chapman Ford.

Betsy Griscome (Brady), against the wishes of her Quaker parents, keeps a tryst with a British officer, Clarence Vernon (Mayo), who promises to marry her upon his return. Clarissa (Cook), her sister, falls in love and marries Joseph Ashburn (Bowers), a trader. Suspecting Vernon of duplicity, Joseph and Vernon fight a duel and Vernon is struck down. A year later Betsy marries John Ross (Kennard), and upon his death she operates a little shop for a living. Here she shields her sister, who was driven from home when she could not produce her marriage certificate. Betsy is commissioned by General Washington (MacQuarrie) to make the first American flag and later is accused of harboring a spy – in reality, her sister’s husband. The film ends happily when all relations are explained.

Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a necklace from a cabaret dancer. He learns that the jewel belongs to the mother of the blonde girl, and the blonde’s philandering father gave it as a gift to the cabaret girl. Blackie must find a way to return the necklace to the owner’s safe without arousing the suspicions of the girl’s family.

While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.