Author Archive: Retro

The Chicken of Tomorrow is a 1948 documentary short film about advances in chicken and egg farming. This mini-documentary was narrated by Lowell Thomas and is in the public domain. The film was sponsored by Texaco.

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the “appropriate” action. Neat little suspense thriller.

Counterfeiter gets out of jail early when he agrees to help the Secret Service round up a gang that’s using his old plates. Dir. Richard Fleischer

A detective uses electronics to rescue a boy held for $1 million by a kidnapper.

A detective (Tomas Milian) goes undercover to bring justice to a crimelord (Jack Palance) accused of stealing $5 million.

Author Spillane stars as his own creation Mike Hammer, who after wallowing in alcohol following the disappearance of his secretary, sobers up and goes into action after learning she may still be alive. From the novel by Mickey Spillane. Dir. Roy Rowland

Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris (Robert Keith), on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank’s wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan), suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett (Dennis O’Keefe), Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.

Gang tries to take over small town to rob its banks.

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.