Author Archive: Retro

In this comedy, two deliverymen impersonate reporters to keep a highly classified prototype machine gun from the clutches of the enemy.

A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man’s soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.

A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love in this vintage cautionary tale.

Lot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh. Digitally mastered from excellent 35mm elements. Lot In Sodom has its original experimental soundtrack by Alec Wilder.

Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).

In this entry in the 12-film series, the Lone Rider and Fuzzy must investigate a “haunted” town. Actually the abandoned burg has become an outlaws hideout. They pretend to be spirits to keep people away. Naturally Fuzzy and the Lone Rider aren’t so easily duped.

A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.

Richard Sutton and Linda Pearson are secretly engaged but unable to marry because of financial problems. Crooked promoter Gibbons offers Richard a deal but, in order to get rid of him, Richard says a rich uncle in Brazil has died and left him a fortune. The news soon spreads all over town and perks up his wealthy-and-ailing grandmother and her doctor warns Richard against telling her the truth. Granny Sutton tricks him into an engagement with a beautiful young nitwit, Gwenny Miller, of whom she is very fond. Barbara Cartwright, daughter of the town’s richest man, suggests she has an idea to get him out of his difficulty and Richard, suffering from an overdose of sleeping pills, visits her. He is too sleepy to realize that her plans calls for marrying her instead, and when her father catches them in an embrace, Richard finds himself engaged to a third woman. Linda walks out and Richard [...]