Author Archive: Retro

After briefly splitting for a brace of unsuccessful solo ventures, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were reunited in one of their best vehicles, Caught Plastered. Bert and Bob are cast as itinerant vaudevillians Tommy and Egbert, who find themselves stranded in a small Midwestern town. Here they befriend Mrs. Talley (Lucy Beaumont), the sweet old proprietor of a near-bankrupt drugstore. To prevent slimy medicinal wholesaler Harry Waters (Jason Robards Sr.) from buying the store at a ridiculously low sum, the boys decide to help Mrs. Talley drum up business. They set up a soda fountain, novelties counter, book shop and even a radio station (“Y.M.I Broadcasting”) in the store, and soon business is booming. But Waters, who secretly moonlights as a bootlegger, sabotages the enterprise by spiking the store’s lemon syrup with booze. Things look bad when Tommy’s sweetheart Peggy (Dorothy Lee) — who happens to be the daughter of the [...]

A gangster learns that his cohorts can’t be trusted when he is nabbed by federal treasury agents.

Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

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.

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.