Author Archive: Retro

A small town girl finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her.

The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.

After receiving an inheritance from an uncle, a woman sets up a fortunetelling business.

A oncetimid young woman gains newfound confidence after a failed marriage, much to the chagrin of her miserable family.

A small-town girl goes to New York hoping to become a star on Broadway, but the best she can do are roles as chorus girls. She falls in with a “fast” crowd, notably a “party girl” named Cherry Blow, and finds herself involved with wild parties, horny millionaires and her boyfriend from back home who has come to New York to marry her.

From the Why We Fight series. A look at the participation of black soldiers in WWII. Dir. Frank Capra.

The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of downontheirluck performers.

In the days when Herod was king in Judea, there lived in the city of David, which Is Bethlehem, a rich young man who, wearying of the emptiness of life, passed his nights and days in idleness and vain carousing. And it came to pass one evening after that he had drunken deep, he left his companions at their feast and came forth upon the streets, meaning to go to his home. Now in those days, Bethlehem was filled with wickedness of divers sorts, and robbers prowled about the streets by night. One of these coming upon the young man, called his companions, and they set on him, and beat him, and after they had stripped him of his wealth, dragged him without the walls of the city, and left him. It chanced that shepherds, passing with their flocks, had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, and nursed him, [...]