Author Archive: Retro

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity, an educated black man who doesn’t really fit in with the natives, nor the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

The mental condition of psychiatrist’s wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her phobia of white carnations.

Story detailing the 14th Century and the people of Switzerland in danger of being sold as slaves and losing their land and belongings.

An ex-detective gets a job as an investigator digging up dirt on celebrities for a tabloid scandal sheet.

As a killer stalks employees, their employer becomes brutal as a result.

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.