Author Archive: Retro

In this film, Suwanee Collier is the boyfriend and mentor of aspiring vocalist Elanda Lee. A classical singer, Elanda refuses to lower herself to perform “swing” music until Collier shows her the way.

In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman–but he can’t stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn’t know who he is.

A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.

Daniel Francis O’Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn’t have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property…which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers. During a rainstorm, Dorothy Stonewall and her parents, seek shelter in the castle, meet Danny there, and are invited to dine with him…on hamburgers. They find hamburgers to be a delicious novelty, and the inspired Danny establishes Ireland’s [...]

A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.

An American spy (Gene Raymond) woos one of the atomic scientists (Sigrid Gurie) he helps escape from the Soviets.

Oliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but when he follows doctor’s orders about sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard.

Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.

A dedicated priest sets up a mission in the slums of a great metropolitan city, hoping to clean up the community by cleansing the souls of its denizens. The plot concentrates on one of these unfortunates, a falsely accused convict played by William Collier Jr. Released from jail, Collier returns to his tenement neighborhood, seeking revenge on the man who framed him. But upon meeting mission worker Blanche Mehaffey, the ex-girlfriend of his would-be victim, Collier vows to change his ways. He also sees to it that his two ex-cellmates (Murray Smith and James Bradbury Jr., a sort of poor man’s Laurel and Hardy) will likewise follow the straight and narrow.