Author Archive: Retro

Jacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D’Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart’s advises… A fierce melodrama.

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

A runaway train car on a steep mountain slope provides the excitement in this low-budget nail biter.

A lighthouse keeper’s wife shelters her fugitive lover.

Insurance investigators go after a ring of truck hijackers.

Neglected as children, two siblings lead troubled lives as adults.

A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.

A young photographer (Eric Linden) looks for news with his sob-sister friend (Boots Mallory).

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936) is a Republic Movie serial starring Ray Mala. It was the fourth of the 66 serials produced by Republic and the last (of four) to be released in 1936. Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island is notable for being the first Republic serial to contain another common aspect of serials – a Re-Cap Chapter, similar to a clipshow in modern television where the events of the previous chapters are repeated via clips (in order to save money). This, contrary to popular belief was not the invention of the concept, which had been routinely used in serial production before the release of this serial. The serial was edited into the film Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island, which was released in 1966.