Author Archive: Retro

Lazy scoundrel makes his wife support him and his family, but when his wife chases him away for flirting with another woman, he meets an old man who gives him a drink that makes him sleep for twenty years. Dir. Bob Hill.

Male student cross-dresses as a female chaperone for his chums in this classic farce from Charlie Chaplin’s big brother.

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

A wealthy young man in South Carolina inherits property in a valley he has never seen. He goes there to inspect his new holdings and is mistaken for a revenue officer by the native population, which supports itself by circumventing the Volstead Act. The young man falls in love with the ward of one of the moonshiners, and he eventually must fight another man to win her hand in marriage.

An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle–but the money was really stolen by the rich man’s son.

First film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Full of brilliantly eerie, imaginative touches no other vampire film has quite managed to duplicate, highlighted by Schreck’s vampire, probably the ugliest in film history. English titles.

Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the new reservation, he sends his men to trap Scott and his troop before they can deliver the information.

The Liquid of Petrification has been spilled, and Nunkie, Margolotte, and Dr. Pipt’s daughter have been turned to stone! It’s up to The Patchwork Girl and the Munchkins to find the ingredients for the antidote: a six-leafed clover, three hairs from a Woozy’s tail and gill water from The Dark Well. Written and Produced by L. Frank Baum. Dir. J. Farrell MacDonald.