Author Archive: Retro

HE’S BACK!…in the most human heart-warming picture in years!

A saboteur who tampered with an experimental aeronautics device is pursued by a man and his dog in this tale of adventure and intrigue from director Raymond K. Johnson.

Womanizing biologist studies life in colony of penguins.

During World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment house that had restrictions against pets, adopt a lost dog and hide it in a vacant apartment, which may have been the only vacant apartment in the United States at the time this movie was being filmed. A burglar breaks in and the apartment is damaged when the dog and crook have a tussle. This blows the dog’s cover, but the kids enlist him in the K-9 Corps, and the dog distinguishes himself in the WWII Italian campaign.

It looks like the end of the line for Poco and Kim when they are separated following a car accident. Poco’s relentless search takes him through the desert. Bravely facing the odds, Poco encounters many dangers, and makes some new friends.

In this warm-hearted drama that is set after the end of the Civil War, a tough former soldier (Alan Ladd) embarks upon a desperate search for a doctor capable of teaching his silent son (Ladd’s 11-year-old son David) to speak.

After two children spend a week living in secrecy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they become so taken with a sculpture that they set out to find the artist (Ingrid Bergman) who created it. Originally released as From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Teenage student leaves for the big city, gets mixed up with a gang of delinquents, and winds up in reform school. His sister and the schoolteacher she loves must set him straight. Dir. Charles Lamont.