Author Archive: Retro

Marcelino is an orphan who grows up in a monastery. One day when he eats his small meal in a room full of old things he gives a piece of his bread to an old wooden Jesus figure – and indeed it takes the bread and eats it. Getting a wish granted for his donation Marcelino wishes to see his mother…

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka’s wife Sylvia Sidney doesn’t suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she’s picked up enough secondhand information about her husband’s activities to arouse the interest of government agent John Loder.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller takes a new identity, with ironic results.

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.

A ruthless, domineering woman is married to an alcoholic D.A., her childhood companion and the only living witness to her murder of her rich aunt seventeen years earlier.

U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.