Author Archive: Retro

The boys run a tailor and dry cleaning operation called the Pip Boys Cleaners. But they aren’t doing too well, and Skin & Flint Finance Corp. wants their rental money. So the boys are in trouble, until a fugitive bank robber hides in their store and loses his suit. The boys find his money in the suit, as well as a combination to a safe. When the robber and his hoods come back for the combination, mad cap action insues, ending with all the crooks on the floor.

Television pilot for a Three Stooges sitcom, where the Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wredk a hapless couples home.

The boys run a small restaurant in the Middle East, but have very few customers. When a few shady characters enter the place, they become aware of the theft of the “King Rootin’ Tootin’s Diamond”, stolen from the king’s tomb. They divise a plan to steal it back from the robber in order to return it for a reward. The Stooges then dress up like Santas to fool the guards.

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected as class president. He’s also a star baseball player and has a cute girlfriend. Thanks to the conniving of his rival, he and his family have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.

Bizzare little novelty film about a wagon train crossing the Plains, where the actors are all in diapers! They are interrupted by Indians, where a young Shirley is tied to the stake. A rarely seen Western comedy. Filled with eye-popping battles of “Cowboys versus Indians” with Shirley right in the middle.

Frank portrays Sonny, who along with his best pal and their tiny friend Mary Lou, played by Temple, decide to try prospecting for gold into California’s high desert region. They want to gain enough money to finance Sonny’s tuition at a miliatry academy which his parents cannot afford. A variety of silliness arises in the short, much of it concerning Mary Lou’s new-found desert tramp friend, a victim of amnesia.

Shirley shines in this frolics of youth short subject. A teenager, embarrassed by his fear of dogs, runs away from home. He finds an abandoned spaniel and immediately, it changes his mind. An enjoyable little film, with Shirley stealing all her scenes as the hero’s lively kid sister. The highlight is the the scene with the fisticuffs, which look impressively realistic.

A doughnut shop in money trouble is saved when the school music class appear on radio to promote the doughnuts. Shirley is beautiful in this funny little film. She is brilliant!