Author Archive: Retro

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.

Group of youngsters are taught about life in a small, caring school. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

Fans of the 1970s cartoon series The Littles may enjoy its live-action spiritual ancestor The Borrowers. Dennis Larson plays an eight-year-old boy living in Victorian England. While exploring his aunt’s (Dame Judith Anderson) mansion, Larson peeks under the floorboards…and what should he see but a family of inches-high humans (Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, Karen Pearson), who survive by “borrowing” bits and pieces from the Big People. Discovered, the Borrowers scramble to avoid being captured and displayed as curiosities. First telecast December 14, 1973, The Borrowers was based on the novel by Mary Norton (of Bedknobs and Broomsticks fame).