Author Archive: Retro

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.

An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

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 [...]