Author Archive: Retro

When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.

Allied spies and Nazi agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension – both with the natives and also within their own group – as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.

The boss’ daughter falls for steelworking McCrea when he saves two people in a factory accident. She plans to make him a society husband within a month.

Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

First and best adaptation of Papa Hemingway’s story of the ill-fated, whirlwind love affair between an American soldier and a British nurse. Dir. Frank Borzage.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

A winner in the “Best Family Film” category at the 1959 San Francisco Film Festival, this fantasy story from Mexico about a good-hearted Saint Nick is geared primarily to the younger set. Santa Claus (José Moreno) is working hard way out in space somewhere, helped along by children from all over dressed in their own national manner and singing songs from their own countries. Santa has a plethora of gadgets to keep kiddies amused, everything from a dreamscope to a master eye, and he himself is given special powers by a magician — he can make himself invisible and keep children asleep, of course. When he runs into trouble from a literal little demon who tempts children into behaving badly, Santa also has his own way of conquering evil and giving love and appropriate gifts where they are needed the most.

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.