Author Archive: Retro

In this adventure, set in Old California, a Spanish nobleman journeys to California to claim an inheritance. He soon discovers that his greedy cousin has laid claim to the wealth by declaring the Spaniard legally dead. The resourceful nobleman decides to trap his wicked relative by posing as a peon. He enlists the aide of the local mission priests.

Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him. Not only does the real murderer seem one step ahead of him as Lamont tries to discover his identity, but he is continually hampered from gaining crucial evidence by his jealous, interfering fiancée Margo Lane. Cranston perseveres and is rewarded with the clue he needs at one of Mann’s victims’ nightclubs.

The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn’t want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.

Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.

Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a beautiful, talented singer, goes undercover as a singer in one of the Mexican clubs. Using her considerable wiles she then begins trying to seduce the ring leader.

A college football player gets expelled after he gets into a fight over the beautiful singer St. Louis Lou.

An unjustly banned horse trainer (William Boyd) makes a comeback with a once-lame longshot.

Matinee Idol is a 1933 British crime film directed by George King and starring Camilla Horn, Miles Mander and Marguerite Allan. The screenplay concerns a young actress who is suspected of murder.

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.