Author Archive: Retro

When a yacht owned and crewed only by women sails up to the shores of Turkey, the only man in sight is Marcel Perez. When he comes aboard, the young lovelies dress him in woman’s clothing so the man-hungry owner won’t grab him. Soon, however, pirates seize everyone and sell the women to a Turkish Pasha, who is particularly taken with the lovely Marcel. Only Dorothy Earle had escaped the pirates’ notice, so she dresses in men’s clothing to rescue everyone.

Marcel Perez is a browbeaten husband whose wife keeps him around to catch mice. When she sends him out for groceries to feed her harridan friends, Perez falls in love with a poster of Dorothy Earle, who plays a nurse in a local leg show. They meet and that’s where the trouble starts.

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

A train stationmaster tangles with two tramps who have robbed him.

Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.