Author Archive: Retro

This film stars Donald Woods as an American priest assigned to a postwar European mission. Bobby Blake is a young war orphan whose harrowing experiences have soured him on mankind. Father Woods brings the boy to America, but the lad is still unapproachable until he befriends Rin Tin Tin.

After his photo is accidentally taken, that someone will do everything in his power to get hold of the negative.

Playboy Larry Blendon (Damian O’Flynn) introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon (Clara Blandick) to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux (Ramsay Ames). Despite Larry’s record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend Philo Vance (William Wright) to help find the killer. Even as they talk, the killer strikes again and Philo hears Larry fall dead. Philo begins his investigation with Alexis Karnoff (leon Belasco’), Virginia’s manager, and the two go to Larry’s home, where Stella tells them that the motive for the killing might be Larry’s will that names the six women in his life as heirs and if any die before the will is probated, the others will divide the shares. They also learn that Katherine Corbett(Phyllis Planchard), the first of Larry’s wives, has been murdered. Suspicion now falls on Lorena Sims (Vivian Austin), a former wife who has been a [...]

As an old man preaches against the sexual promiscuity of the early 1930s, the man’s middle-aged son runs around with a married woman.

The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.

In this romantic drama, two carnival barnstormers vie for the affection of a lovely woman. Their rivalry has deeper roots, as they were mortal enemies when they were WWI fighter pilots. To get the American once and for all, the German pilot tries to frame his rival’s little brother.

In this western, an insurance salesman falls in love with the daughter of a sheriff. After her father is murdered by a mysterious killer, the salesman swears to bring the murderer in. With the help of another, they soon figure out the mystery and bring the outlaw–who is really a prominent citizen in town–to justice.

Robert Gordon (Leon Janney), a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial Florida home. There he falls in love with his step-sister, Patricia Morrow (Eleanor Hunt), ten years his senior. He runs away and joins the R.A.F. Shot down in battle, he is rescued and taken to a monastery where he renounces the world to study for the priesthood.