Author Archive: Retro

During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog’s cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign.

It looks like the end of the line for Poco and Kim when they are separated following a car accident. Poco’s relentless search takes him through the desert. Bravely facing the odds, Poco encounters many dangers, and makes some new friends.

In this warm-hearted drama that is set after the end of the Civil War, a tough former soldier (Alan Ladd) embarks upon a desperate search for a doctor capable of teaching his silent son (Ladd’s 11-year-old son David) to speak.

After two children spend a week living in secrecy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they become so taken with a sculpture that they set out to find the artist (Ingrid Bergman) who created it. Originally released as From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Teenage student leaves for the big city, gets mixed up with a gang of delinquents, and winds up in reform school. His sister and the schoolteacher she loves must set him straight. Dir. Charles Lamont.

When the neighborhood handyman, Dan (Whitford Kane) is falsely accused of murder, a group of kids set out to prove his innocence. When their investigation leads them into the spooky, old house of the deceased, the kids run into all kinds of wacky mishaps.

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

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Mischievous young Peck must save the career of a circus performer, while trying to make it to summer camp in time to thwart his nemesis at an obstacle course. Dir. Sam Wood.