Author Archive: Retro

Hajj, a beggar, awakes on the steps of a mosque in Mecca, and has one wild day as he cheats, steals, attempts an assassination, is imprisoned, escapes, saves his daughter from a harem, is banished, and eventually makes a trip back to Mecca. Dir. Carol Reed.

Two identical Englishmen exchange places during WWII so that new German bombs being tested in France can be investigated.

The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, “The Rat” – but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival – and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel’s ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear.

After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.

Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sioux and Cheyenne tribes fight the white man.

Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident.

Humorous romance has Love as an orphan who finds she is about to become Grand Duchess of her native homeland.

When his old prison-friend’s daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl’s father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.

Marlene Dietrich as a seductress in this rare find. German titles. Dir. Marlene Dietrich