Author Archive: Retro

The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

A young man (Frankie Darro) gets a job to support his mother; he’s hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.

In this domestic comedy, Peter Foley stands to inherit a fortune from his late uncle. The problem: to increase his allowance from his wealthy relative, Peter pretended to have a wife. Naturally, the will stipulates that Peter still be married, lest he lose his $800,000 legacy.

Sarah Crabtree was once a star of the stage, but has fallen on hard times–her apartment building has been condemned and torn down by the city, and she has nowhere to go. She writes to her friend, the wealthy and famous Lady Henrietta Scorsby, seeking help. She is soon notified that Henrietta–well known for her proclivity for travel to exotic l;locales–is missing in Africa’s Gobi Desert. Devastated by the news, Sarah–who has a chronic heart condition–decides to end her days by impersonating the carefree and fun-loving Henrietta at the Long Island estate.of Henrietta’s nephew John, who has only seen her once many years previously. She soon finds out that her friend’s family is beset by a variety of problems, and she sets out to solve their problems before she dies. However, as it turns out, those problems may not be as easily solvable as Sarah thought.

Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad’s wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy’s broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally’s divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.

Exotic-dancer Eve Lorraine(‘Jan Wiley’)), with aspirations of being a screen actress, isn’t happy with the direction her career has taken, what with performing at a club where the opening and closing act is Selika Pettiford (