Author Archive: Retro

An investigative reporter sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime when an accused murderer escapes hanging.

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.

When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.

Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper’s daughter he’s fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride.

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