Author Archive: Retro

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit’s component numbering.

When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas’s naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

A film buff’s dream, Spiders is comprised of two episodes from an unfinished silent serial from Fritz Lang. Filled with excitement and adventure, it tells the story of a brave explorer who is questing for the fabulous Incan diamond. To get it though, he must keep ahead of the powerful Spider cult, who want it for their own evil purposes. The episodes were originally titled “The Golden Lake” and “The Diamond Ship.” Many of the techniques and production designs Fritz Lang experimented with in this aborted series, he later refined in his classic Dr. Mabuse films. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Harry Henderson, Lucia Lynn Moses. The First production by the independent Colored Players Film Company in Philadelphia. Directed by Frank Peregri

This British production includes five of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. The stories presented are The Man With The Twisted Lip, The Dying Detective, The Beryl Coronet, Resident Patient, and The Devil’s Foot. Eilly Norwood plays Holmes in all five mysteries.