Author Archive: Retro

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may–or may not–have amnesia.

Powerful financier hires a young American to find people from his past, but he finds they are all dead. Written and Produced by Orson Welles.

Millie’s life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

Fifth in the Mr. Wong series. A man is accused of killing his father-in-law after an argument, but the famous detective feels there’s more than meets the eye in this case, and a cargo of stolen bonds may be part of it. Dir. William Nigh

An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Fifty years in the life of a midwestern schoolteacher whose frustrated romances leave her to concentrate instead on the lives of her students. Dir. Tay Garnett. Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy’s daughter Hope.