Author Archive: Retro

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

The Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Before he knows it, his investigation leads him into a world of double-crosses and big-time art fraud.

A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.

In this comedy, a group of ex-husbands rally together to protest having to pay exorbitant amounts of alimony and wind up in “alimony-jail.”

Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice’s mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what’s left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat – all of her friends are sporting them – while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat. This marriage business certainly isn’t working out like living-with-Mom, and Alice just doesn’t know how she can be seen if she isn’t wearing a new sable coat. But, help is lurking just around the corner in the form of a sleaze-ball named Morrell. He’s a stock-broker and he is a bachelor and he enjoys the benefits of married [...]

Complications arise when a young women becomes a housekeeper for three men.

A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening “beat” gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman’s daughter.

The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.

Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.