Author Archive: Retro

WW2 drama that follows a group of British conscripts, starting with their rigorous basic training and ending with their deployment in North Africa.

Chorus girl performing in the Ziegfeld Follies must choose between her boyfriend and stardom. Music by Irving Berlin. Dir. Millard Webb, John W. Harkrider

Social comedy about a reporter who gets caught up in the case of a woman who refuses to pay for her dog’s licence. Merry mess of dogs, love and politics, Reporter champions mongrel dog against an ambitious politician.

In Las Vegas, a group of assorted criminals plans the robbery of an armored truck hauling casino money to the bank.

When Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Axel Bomasch, inventor of a new type of armor-plating.

A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.

After driving off the road, a couple turns on their hazard lights, but another car interprets this as a prearranged signal and a bag full of money is tossed from it into their car, leading to a series of tragic, greed-induced events.

When Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.