Author Archive: Retro

A pilot (John David Horsley) and his dog crash-land near an island where a German trader (Noah Beery) has natives restless.

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother’s execution.

A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl’s male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery. Griffith and Lupino pull off the daunting task of conveying emotion while spending half the film bound and gagged. Director Paul Wendkos stages the action essentially from the victim’s point of view; we see only what they see, and are kept guessing as to the full details of the crime and the ultimate fate of the hostages. Based on a novel by Fielden Farrington, Strangers in 7A was first telecast as an ABC Movie of the Week.

A group of teenagers convert a barn into a canteen for servicemen during WWII.

This romance chronicles the exploits of a skirt-chaser in Paris.

The daughter of rich socialites meets a French woman at a party. The woman reveals that the girl is adopted and that her birth mother was a murderer. Ashamed, the girl runs away from home and falls for the wrong man.

Spies plan to blow up French ships travelling through the Suez Canal, blaming it on the British in the hopes to start a war. Mr. Moto poses as an antique dealer to keep that from happening. Dir. Norman Foster

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.