Author Archive: Retro

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn’t marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of “My Old Kentucky Home” sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.

Men Are Such Fools is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William Nigh and written by Viola Brothers Shore and Ethel Doherty. The film stars Leo Carrillo, Vivienne Osborne, Una Merkel, Joseph Cawthorn and Tom Moore.

A British playboy, who just happens to be in possession of an ancient sarcophagus (it’s sitting in his mansion living room), discovers there’s a 3000-year old Egyptian princess inside–alive! She pops out one evening and the two of them go out on the town for an unforgettable night of romance and song.

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.

I Am a Fugitive (Spanish:Soy un prófugo) is a 1946 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Emilia Guiú and Daniel ‘Chino’ Herrera.[1] The film’s sets were designed by Manuel Fontanals. A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.

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.