Author Archive: Retro

Film adaptation of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey.’

A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.

A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.

A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies’ man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.

In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he’s hired to end his life.

The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.

A young married couple are living happily in the little fishing village and at the opening of the story the young husband is one the “Three fishers went sailing away to the West, away in the West as the sun went down. Each thought on the woman who loved him best, and the women stood watching them out of the town. For men must work and women must weep, and there’s little to earn and many to keep. Though the harbor bar be moaning.” As the days rolled by the “three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower…They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower,” but no sign of their husband’s return could be seen. Ah! Little did they know that on a distant shore “Three fishers lay out on the shining sands, in the morning gleam as the tide went down.” When the rescue party brings the fishers in they find [...]