Author Archive: Retro

An obese cooks’ lover succeeds in escaping the police after an incident involving her masters.

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.

Out west, some bad guys have Dorothy Earle tied to a tree while they duel with their 20-shooters to see who gets her. The sight of the helpless Dorothy drives Marcel Perez wild; he rescues her. Her father tells them they can keep each other, just empty one of the gold mines up in them thar hills. However the bad guys incite the local Indians to attack Our Heroes in this funny comedy.

Not wishing to see their nephew marry a hotel manucurist, Leon and his wife decide to stop the wedding plans. At the hotel, Leon mistakes Maizie (Dorothy Granger), the gold-digging girl friend of the house detective (Tom Kennedy), for his nephew’s intended. He invites her up to his room and promises her a trip to Havana if she will jilt the nephew. Enter Maizie’s boy friend, followed by Leon’s wife, both of whom are sure Leon is up to hanky-panky and Leon, as usual, is up to…and in it.

Edgar discovers a cache of gold coins in his attic but is intimidated by hose painter Billy Franey into sharing his illegal stash.

While driving in town a husband almost runs over a tramp. Feeling sorry for him, the husband brings the man home with him to help him get back on his feet. The tramp soon pretty much takes over the whole house–and not only that, but he starts getting all of his tramp friends over to “visit”.

After the family leaves for a trip, Edgar rents out the apartment to a troublemaker who likes to throw wild parties.