Author Archive: Retro

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.

Abbott & Costello’s version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

Escaped convict returns home to visit his former girlfriend who is now married and has a family. Written by Robert Hamer. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.

Down and out piano player hitches a ride with a man who mysteriously dies, and when a femme fatale threatens to turn him in for the “murder”, he is forced to assume the identity of the dead man to collect an inheritance.

Life of a famous writer is seen through flashbacks as he and his wife, while on safari, wait for a doctor to save his gangrenous leg. Color. Dir. Henry King.

The unemployed Howard Tyler is desperate for a job since he is married with children and his wife Judyis pregnant. When he meets the “bon vivant” Jerry Slocum, the stranger offers a job position to Howard. Soon he learns that Jerry is a small-time thief and his job would be to drive the getaway car after the heist. Howard improves the life of his family and tells that he is working in the night shift of a factory. Meanwhile, the journalist Gil Stanton that works in a tabloid is assigned by the owner to promote the thefts to increase the selling of newspaper. When Jerry kidnaps the son of a millionaire, he brutally kills the man and forces Howard to help him to dump the corpse in the sea. Then he asks for ransom to the family. When the boy is found, Stanton incites the population telling that the abductors are monsters. When Howard and [...]

A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.