Author Archive: Retro

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.

Barbara Carlin attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin, had tried to do away with her, and is also (rightfully) curious as to just who was the woman buried under her name. She learns that the victim was glamor girl Helen Lawrence, with whom her husband had been having an affair. Complications come from her sister Rusty, who, it turns out, is not her real sister and also doesn’t like her a whole lot, and from a dim-witted prize fighter, George Mandley. The family attorney, Michael Dunn, stands around and provides little in the way of help or reason for being there, until…

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.