Author Archive: Retro

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.

Beautiful orphan girl goes to stay with her uncle at a creepy hotel, not realizing that her uncle is involved with cut-throats and smugglers. Based on the book by Daphne Du Maurier. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.

Abbott & Costello’s version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

Escaped convict returns home to visit his former girlfriend who is now married and has a family. Written by Robert Hamer. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.

Down and out piano player hitches a ride with a man who mysteriously dies, and when a femme fatale threatens to turn him in for the “murder”, he is forced to assume the identity of the dead man to collect an inheritance.

Life of a famous writer is seen through flashbacks as he and his wife, while on safari, wait for a doctor to save his gangrenous leg. Color. Dir. Henry King.