Author Archive: Retro

Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.

Awkward nebbish scholar Buster Keaton fails to make the grade at school with the jocks and the ladies — until circumstances climactically push him to prove his athletic prowess and win the girl of his dreams. One of Buster’s lesser — but still classic — silent features.

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.

The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit’s component numbering.

When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.