Author Archive: Retro

A coarse cowboy is heralded as a fast-draw gunslinger in this western film.

A stage illusionist’s comeback attempt results in his humiliation. He plots to revenge himself by hypnotizing people into committing murders for him.

In revenge for the Communist government in Poland having sent his mother to a concentration camp where she died, Matt Anders devotes himself to freeing others from totalitarian countries.

(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named ‘Flash Jack’, who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.

A master of disguise commits a series of daring crimes. Nobody knows what he looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner whilst under police protection because he was about to betray him.

Dot Burton (Faye Emerson)has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who believe her innocent until she confesses. But before going to jail she manages to steal the bank’s $40,000 from her accomplices and leaves it with her landlady.

A man who has the knack for finding stolen items. Then returns them to the insurance company finds some fake jewels that he was unaware of and turns them in. Antics ensue.

Starring Monogram’s low-budget answer to Gene Autry, the rather colorless Jimmy Wakely, this minor music Western was actually disapproved for export on the grounds that it depicted what the censorship boards deemed “general lawlessness.” The “lawlessness” depicted centers around Denny (Dennis Moore), impersonating a federal agent after being falsely accused of killing Bruce Carter (Hugh Prosser), a guest at the Mesa Inn. As it turns out, the dead man isn’t what he claimed to be, either, but with the help of Jimmy Wakely, grizzled sidekick Lasses (Lee “Lasses” White), and girl agent Dale Harding (Cay Forrester), Denny clears up the general confusion within the allotted 56 minutes or so. While Moore attempts to clear himself of the murder charge, Wakely croons his own “Too Bad, Little Girl, Too Bad,” “Good Morning Mr. Sunshine,” and two or three other selections, while Lee “Lasses” White performs “When the Sunset Bids the Desert Goodbye” and an aggregation calling [...]

Henry Courtney, a wealthy importer is found murdered and the famous DeNormand necklace has been stolen. The false testimony of two witnesses, Rand and Hobbs, puts Jim O’Brien in the shadow of the hangman’s noose. Martha Courtney, widow of the murdered man and Jim’s former sweetheart is convinced he isn’t guilty, and promises crooked lawyer Roger Lanning the necklace – which Jim doesn’t have – if he can arrange for Jim’s escape. Rand and Lanning killed Courtney, but Lanning doesn’t know that Rand has the necklace.