Author Archive: Retro

A half-mad lighthouse keeper during World War II unknowingly plays host to a French concentration camp refugee and a British spy.

The life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature is against them.

WW2 drama that follows a group of British conscripts, starting with their rigorous basic training and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

Chorus girl performing in the Ziegfeld Follies must choose between her boyfriend and stardom. Music by Irving Berlin. Dir. Millard Webb, John W. Harkrider

Social comedy about a reporter who gets caught up in the case of a woman who refuses to pay for her dog’s licence. Merry mess of dogs, love and politics, Reporter champions mongrel dog against an ambitious politician.

In Las Vegas, a group of assorted criminals plans the robbery of an armored truck hauling casino money to the bank.

When Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Axel Bomasch, inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.