Author Archive: Retro

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.

A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations–and men–of big-city life.

Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.

The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.

Katy White, is at death’s door in an emergency hospital but is hanging on long enough to tell her story. In flashback, Katy tells of her widowed father , a bank guard trying to raise two teen-age daughters…Katy the nice girl and her sister, Laura the not-quite-nice girl. Katy tries to guide her sister away from bad company, but isn’t having much success. Al, Laura’s hoodlum boyfriend, asks her to steal her father’s gun.She does so. Meanwhile, under the guidance of Helen Clark, a kindly policewoman, the better-supervised kids open up a JIVE Club in order to keep off of the Mean Streets and not drift into juvenile delinquency. Joy and Laura join the club but Laura only in order to keep late hours with Al. But Joy is keeping a watchful eye on Laura.