Author Archive: Retro

A divorced woman is set to receive $100,000 and quarts of diamonds from her divorce-disapproving aunt. Having taken in her first husband as a lodger, due to financial difficulties, and now living with her second husband, she must act to convince her aunt, that she is still married to her first husband, which is not taken gracefully by her second husband.

Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man’s money, not realizing it’s his girlfriend’s father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.

A recently released prisoner struggles to support his family.

One of W.K.L. Dickson’s laboratory workers horses around for the camera.