Author Archive: Retro

The Well-paid is a Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout. It was filmed in 1948 and starring María Antonieta Pons and Víctor Junco.

Sky Patrol is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring John Trent as Tailspin Tommy Tomkins.

The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn’t do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married. A minister stands up and offers to perform the ceremony. Mary is appreciative to her ‘new’ husband for saving her from jail, but she sees him as a rich playboy who got drunk and decided to be gallant. She gives him instructions to move on, but he persists on taking care of his wife. And about the time she has decided that she loves him, his parents show up with lots of objections.

A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can’t buy the one thing he craves: love.

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison’s only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients–and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke’s on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner. The adventures of Drogo and the Colonel with Moore’s Carnival are replete with Hal Roach slapstick.

A plane crash over the Pacific leaves seven survivors stranded in a life raft in this war-time disaster movie. One of the passengers is a captured Japanese official en route to stand trial for war crimes. Two of the survivors spent time in a Japanese prison camp. Both pilots survived as did a pretty nurse. The rescue sequences are comprised of documentary footage of an actual rescue by the Air-Sea Rescue Service. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi