Author Archive: Retro

One of series of thrillers by Edgar Wallace.

British destroyer and her men, in crucial moments during WWII, Noel Coward wrote story and the stirring film score.

Self-centered woman lets nothing stand in her way as she climbs the ladder of social success. Color.

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby’s dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.

A bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she’s chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

Stuffy father tries to fix up his playboy son with a poor, honest young woman, but she falls for dad instead. Dir. George Archainbaud.

Fatherless American boy living in 1880s Brooklyn discovers he’s the heir to a British dukedom. Dir. William Beaudine.

Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel to the 1937 film has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch’s reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Victoria’s relationship with Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) as well as the political and military upheavals that characterized her time as Queen.