Author Archive: Retro

When perennial college students Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw’s band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome “tramp” who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur’s uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.

A knowledgeable doctor, (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus changing the town’s young people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries cure it.

Alaskan salmon fisherman battles a corrupt competitor and falls in love with a beautiful society girl and a bawdy barmaid. Dir. George Archainbaud

Classic battle scenes highlight this story of Germany’s 1241 invasion of Russia. Dir. Sergei Eisenstein.