Author Archive: Retro

Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston are a couple of poor Irish is to get married and have a cow. When Farnum reads that New York City has the finest police force in America, because it’s all Irishmen, Farnum decides that’s the place for him. So Miss Kingston sells her pig, Farnum borrows the rest, and it’s off to the New World for him. It takes him half the movie to get on the force, and he promptly loses his job, when he refuses to accept pay-offs from women who wear kimonos for his boss.

Tough, Irish tomboy Pickford mothers her policeman father while getting into trouble with the ethnically diverse denizens of the ghetto. Dir. Charles Chaplin.

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

George K. Arthur plays a boob (in the bumpkin sense, not the anatomical one) who loses his best girl to a smooth bootlegger.

Woman cares for nine orphans while trying to fend off starvation and kidnappers. Dir. Victor Saville.

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents’. Complications ensue.

In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can’t make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.

Rufus Billop was never believed to survive as a newborn. He’s lived through infancy and childhood surrounded by doctors and medicines, worried over his frail health, becoming an accomplished hypochondriac on his own merits. When three partners consider his case a good investment in exchange for future fortune, a wise doctor prescribes him a Lovely View to behold from his ailing bed, and everything begins to change.

A German Shepherd puppy is “adopted” by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.