Author Archive: Retro

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.

Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called “Steve.” Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (Mathew Betz) and his henchmen have used this ruse to get him off his beat in order to rob a warehouse. The Police Commissioner (DeWitt Jennings), knowing Trent is innocent, suggests he be dismissed from the force and get a job with the gang. At Cantor’s swank gambling establishment Trent finds his girlfriend, Molly Malone (Ada Ince), who has been searching for him. With the evidence he has gathered, Trent

Tragedy follows from a sea captain’s (Trevor Bardette) disregard for an ancient Tahitian taboo.

A secretary suspects that her employer’s three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he’ll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.

PRC – Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Quigley, Ward McTaggart, Kenneth Harlan, Donald Curtis. When Reynolds becomes engaged to the local DA, played by Quigley, her former boyfriend gangster shows up. The gangster later ends up shot! However, whos to blame? The finger would seem to point at Marjorie. Nifty PRC crime. 16mm

Sonja Henie stars as figure skater Trudy Ericksen, who is torn between the affections of two men, bandleader Duke Sargent (Cesar Romero) and his agent Jimmy Hall (Don Ameche).

In this crime drama, a policeman pretends to quit the force. Naturally his gun is taken away. He then infiltrates a robber gang so he can bring them to justice. In his spare time, the former officer falls in love with a waitress.

A crooked lawyer blackmails a client into a murder plot against his wife.