Author Archive: Retro

Two college students neglect their girlfriends during a student election.

Waitress Pauperette Ware desires to climb the social ladder and attempts to do so with the assistance of millionaire Blackmer.

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

Rinnie is asked to guard the furs of his master, fur trapper Brule Conway. When Rinnie is lured away by another female dog, Conway’s winter furs are stolen by Black Wolf, a henchman for the French-Canadian trapper Pepite La Joie. After a series of adventures, Rinnie masterfully captures the evil doers and returns with the furs, winning the hearts of all.

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father’s wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury’s birth.

Lucky Corrigan or Fury and the Woman is a 1936 American-Canadian drama film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring William Gargan, Molly Lamont and James McGrath

When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls’ reformatory.

The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin’s physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang’s activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail.