Author Archive: Retro

Social drama about factory workers and exploitation.

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hoppicking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on a photographic holiday instead! The conditions of the legacy are that she must spend three years learning to be a lady before she inherits absolutely. ‘Vicky’ does her best, but she is not happy in high society. Meanwhile her old East End beau Bert accepts a loan from her in order to ‘better himself’ and starts a highlysuccessful fishandchip shop business. He takes elocution lessons and buys gentleman’s clothes in the hopes of aspiring to her hand. But Vicky, who thinks he has deserted her now she is a fine lady, is lonely enough to accept an offer of marriage from her guardian’s spendthrift son, and when Bert reads of the engagement in the newspapers he abandons [...]

A con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

In 1431, Jeanne d’Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

A family feud erupts in the mountains of Kentucky.

With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. After they become fond of each other he strikes a Turkish officer. When peace arrives, his blow costs him his noble lands. She is burned out of her house. They meet again on the road with nothing but each other.

This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief’s daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.