Author Archive: Retro

Returning from Chicago swathed in fur, small-town gal Ava Gardner precipitates a crisis for ne’er-do-well George Raft, who stayed behind to moulder. Gardner hadn’t yet reached the apex of her insolent sexuality (she looks close to plain in some scenes), and Raft plays, what else, George Raft. Whistle Stop is no masterpiece, but it intermittently sparks into life, generally when Victor McLaghlin shows up, trying to lure Raft into a murderous scheme or taking revenge on his sneering boss.

A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.

Vaudeville sharpshooter is duped into murdering the husband of his evil assistant. Dir. Anthony Mann.

Whilst out on a rowboat with her husband, John, Louise Haloran kills him, and casts his body overboard, telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise’s main concern; she can only inherit part of his family fortune if he’s still alive. The Halorans are a strange family; still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter, Kathleen who’d drowned in a pond when she was a young child. The family hold an annual ceremony of remembrance, on the anniversary of her death. But this year – with John recently deceased, someone is wielding an axe…intent on murder!

People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder…His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the “Magic Circle”?

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that “God told them to.”

Mild-mannered cashier becomes an embezzler when he meets a manipulative woman.

Top-notch thriller set after World War 11 featuring Glenn Ford as an ex-paratrooper hired by a church to find a bejeweled glove lifted by ex-Nazi crook George Macready. Geraldine Brooks and Gaby Andre also star in this atmospheric yarn.