Author Archive: Retro

Dir. Mack Sennet. College professor finds it “convenient” to hire an actress to assist him to teach his classis, to his own chagrin.

Leon’s boss buys a racehorse, but doesn’t want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.

A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend’s father (who doesn’t like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the “robbery”, and the boyfriend has to get it back.

A young man wants to elope with his pretty girlfriend, but her father–the local police chief–won’t let them leave town.

In the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of matrimony, and Musty is no exception. In spite of all the warnings voiced by his married friends. Musty takes the leap. The results are terrible from Musty’s point of view, but furnish a series of incidents that cannot but elicit mirth and laughter from theater patrons.

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.