Author Archive: Retro

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

The story of an orphaned girl brought up by the Storlein family. Young Anne (Asta Nielsen) is brought as an infant to the Storlein farm by her mother, who has been traveling and is in need of a rest. The two are turned away at the door, and the mother takes her young daughter to the barn to sleep. The farmhand Jon discovers them in the morning but the mother has not made it through the night, so young Anne is taken in and raised by the family. She is a rambunctious little girl, always getting her younger (step) brother into trouble. Finally mother Storlein has had enough, and lets slip that she never should have taken Anne in. Young Anne goes to Jon and learns the truth of her arrival at the farm. Years pass, and she and her younger stepbrother are now smitten. But Jon, the farmhand who found her in the barn [...]

Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father’s death.

An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.

A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.

Classic German story of a hotel’s pompous doorman who is shamed when he is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. English titles. Dir. F.W. Murnau.

Il misterioso Zorro, intervenuto per impedire le nozze tra Carmen e Marcel, nel compiere la solita acrobatica e strategica ritirata, cade rimanendo impedito nei movimenti. Preoccupato per le ribalderie dei mercenari francesi del Governatore, Frà Donato, con l’aiuto del sagrestano Archimede, costringe l’inetto Felipe a fingersi Zorro. Il timido ed impaurito giovanotto riesce nell’intento, anche spinto dall’amore verso Rosita e sotto la spinta del vino, cui non è abituato. L’impresa, tuttavia, diviene assai ardua quando il Governatore sta per impiccare il conte Manuel La Paz sotto la protezione del De Colegnac, migliore lama di Francia. Anche questa volta, però, la coalizione del finto Zorro e dei suoi seguaci finisce per avere la meglio sull’oppressore.