Author Archive: Retro

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.

Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

Two women discover they are pregnant, and experience the anxiety, discomfort, fear, hope, and ultimate joy of pregnancy and motherhood. Both fathers encounter the parallel experiences of first-time fatherhood.

David Holm (Victor Sjostrom) is the abusive husband who finds his wife (Hilda Borgstrom) has left him after he is released from prison. He vows vengeance for her abandonment in his hour of need. The couple is reunited in a Salvation Army mission where David convinces his estranged wife to reconcile their differences. Edith Larssen (Astrid Holm) aids in bringing the troubled couple together. A year later, David has regressed to his alcoholic ways and sees the messenger of death in a harrowing dream. He rushes to save his wife from suicide as she contemplate the murder of the couple’s children in this implausible melodrama.

The simple-minded son of a rich financier must find his own way in the world.

A dramatization of the methods in which young women are abducted or otherwise procured for prostitution.

German silent film about urban life and temptation.

Max Linder parody of Three Musketeers.

Louise Brooks drama about young woman’s fall into exploitation.