Author Archive: Retro

This one is about two buckaroos who dump flour on each other and roll each other around in barrels, their girlfriends — one pretty, the other fat — and the pretty one’s bear, Danger — when you’re good looking, people put up with an awful lot. It’s fast, it’s silly, it’s uncomplicated. Good enough.

After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the “Do a Good Deed a Day” Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization

Marvel Rea will inherit a lot of money if she has a husband by the time she is eighteen, so Frank Coleman kidnaps her before she can get married and so she can sing in his saloon.

A young pair of newlyweds crash into a gypsy camp, where strange encounters with love and the law await them.

Traveling salesman Joe Rock blows into town and is offered Lilian Biron as his wife if he can make the wind stop blowing.

Glen Tryon is learning to drive. He rents a car from Noah Young, gets thirty seconds of instruction from George Rowe and takes girlfriend Blanche Mehaffey for a spin in this fine Roach comedy.Tryon was the latest in a series of normal-looking comedians for Roach that had started with Harold Lloyd’s “Glass” character. While he was a capable performer and Roach’s staff knew how to make a comedy with almost anyone, there was something apparently missing, so Tryon eventually moved on to Universal and a long and successful career largely behind the camera.