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