Author Archive: Retro

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith’s shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it. An excellent short comedy with a lot of creative material and a good variety of gags.

A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who testified against him at his trial. Robert Foxworth plays the police lieutenant assigned to protect them, and to catch the invisible strangler.

Pioneering film that presented “realistic” space travel, as scientists build the first rocket to the moon. Includes a “Woody Woodpecker” cartoon sequence by Walter Lantz. Produced by George Pal, Written by sci-fi great Robert A. Heinlein. Dir. Irving Pichel

Hunters and biologists try to capture a vicious white gorilla, which may be the key to the evolution theory. Produced by Sigmund Neufeld. Dir. Sam Newfield. A thrilling jungle hunt for the rarest of all beasts in the Belgian Congo–an albino gorilla.

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down.