Author Archive: Retro

Hollywood is parodied as a girl wins a small town beauty contest and lands a big screen contract. Dir. Alfred E. Green

Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk. He gets himself involved in a dispute between a development company and the local ranchers who don’t want their ranches ‘developed.’ He falls in love with Molly Hollis, a rancher’s daughter, and sides with the good guys, although his swaggering about town in a pair of sheep-skin chaps does little to impress anybody.

Nellie Nolan works at the notions counter of a big department store, and Tom Clancy is in the hardware department of the same establishment. But both of their souls are filled with ambitions and aspirations not to be governed by even the routine of such existence. Nellie has saved a whole hundred dollars and, in a fit of June madness, decides to spend it all for one week of glorious pretense at a Maine summer resort, assuming the role of a lady of fashion and tasting for once the joys of wealth. Tom is impressed with the same newspaper story which has caught Nellie’s eye, and he goes to the same resort, posing as a rich young man from Newport. The two young people meet each other, each believing the other belongs to an entirely different sphere of life, and the succeeding events make it possible for Tom to become a hero in the eyes [...]

Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.

Writer checks into the Baldpate Inn, and makes a bet with the owner that he can begin a novel at midnight and finish it before midnight of the next day. Written by Hugh Ford.

A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns with him to his ranch, where he lives with his elderly father. The father, not used to sharing his son’s attentions with anyone, takes an instant dislike to the new wife, and proceeds to make life as miserable for her as possible, including trying to turn his son against her. When a drifter shows up looking for work, the old man sees his chance.

Karl Heinrich, Germany’s young, bored and lonely heir apparent, is sent to the University of Heidelberg where he becomes enamored with an innkeeper’s daughter, but is forced to choose between love and duty. Written by John Emerson. Supervised by D.W. Griffith. Dir. Marcel Varnel

First feature version of tale.

Medicine Man Doctor Cutter and his Indian partner arrive in a town where mysterious stage robberies have occurred. Money goes out in a locked strongbox but at the destination the still locked strongbox is opened only to find the money missing and the stage was not held up. Using binoculars to watch the next stage carrying money, Cutter sees how the money is removed and he and his partner now set out to bring in the outlaws and recover the money.