Author Archive: Retro

A maniac, who stalks and murders street-women at night, is terrorizing London. Michael Angeloff, a Hungarian musician, takes lodgings with the parents of Daisy Bunting, and a romance develops between the girl and Angeloff. The terroristic murders continue and circumstances gradually point the finger of suspicion at Angeloff, as the only clue the police have is that the killer is a foreign musician.

Though ordered to walk off his job by his union, Dynamite Denny (Jay Wilsey, aka Buffalo Bill Jr.) loyally remains at his post and is blacklisted as a result. As luck would have it, Denny befriends an itinerant fireman (William V. Mong) — who turns out to be the chairman of the board of the railroad company, travelling incognito. Our hero lands a better-paying job as a yardmaster then gets back in the good graces of the union by courageously bringing a runaway engine under control. As an ultimate reward, Dynamite Denny wins the hand of the chairman’s beautiful daughter (Blanche Mehaffey). The best performance in this slapped-together quickie is delivered by Matthew Betz as a bulldog-visaged union agitator.

A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.

Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.

Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene’s butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob’s girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene…

A group of adventurers discovers a cache of black pearls off the coast of an island. When one of them is shot, a young girl is accused of being the killer.

In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit.

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store’s designated ‘Fired Man.”; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn’t make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.

Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.