Author Archive: Retro

An aging veteran, tired of his life in the veterans’ home, decides to move in with his wealthy uncle.

A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.

One of her earliest shorts, “When Little Lindy Sang,” deals with racial prejudice and centers on the long black child in a white classroom.

Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen’s heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead.