Author Archive: Retro

Tweedledum is a farm hand that wants to elope with the farmer’s daughter, but the family is violently against it, and chase him off. So he gets revenge on them by pranks like throwing bricks at them from the roof, setting fire to the mother sleeping on the porch. He and his love eventually escape by using a an old iron bath tub as a boat.

Marcel Perez here appearing in the United States under the name of “Tweedy” tries to pick up Dorothy Earle. She has him arrested, but once in the police station, she changes her mind.

Musty wakes with a toothache and goes to a painless dentist who offers to pull it out without charge. That’s when the sadism starts as we descend into a George Melies world where Musty is almost drowned, beaten and then roasted for the rest of the movie.

After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him.

Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.

A man runs out the stage door of a burlesque theater, followed by billowing smoke. Firefighters run up. One places a ladder up to a second-story window beside the door, and he helps several women wearing burlesque costumes to climb down. On the other side of the door, a firefighter coaxes a woman out of a window. Two fire fighters enter the building and emerge soon after carrying a woman who has collapsed, overcome by smoke.

The dapper Max is excited to sneak shots of a Rubenesque beauty, because he’s bored, with nothing else to photograph on the deserted French beach. But she pays him off, not to even peak at her in her bathing suit. As she’s attempting to get ashore, she desperately tries to avoid his snapping away. Swimming back out, she disappears under the ocean, driving Max frantic with guilt.