Author Archive: Retro

A man’s heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

A Martian spacecraft crash-lands near the observatory of Cyrus Layton, designer of Earth’s first spaceship. The survivor, forerunner of an invasion, can assume the form of any earthman. Calling himself the “purple monster,” the humanoid invader sets about gaining control of Layton’s rocket project. Opposing him is former Secret Service man Craig Foster who, episode by episode, tries to thwart the monster’s attempts to acquire rocket components. Will Craig ever suspect that his closest associate is really the monster?

Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.

An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a German spy ring.

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter’s chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.

Woman must retrieve a letter containing manufactured evidence tying her to the murder of her mentally ill husband, who died of a heart-attack. Dir. Tay Garnett

Paroled sociopath career criminal Vincent Lubeck betrays his family’s trust when he masterminds a complex armored car robbery.

A young teenage boy is blamed for a Florida neighborhood being terrorized. But the real culprits are a gang of four punks leading a group of local delinquents on a nihilistic lifestyle of destruction and mayhem.