Author Archive: Retro

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.

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.