Author Archive: Retro

Out of the comic strips step the characters, Snuffy Smith and Barney Google, two soldiers who are sent to guard a top-secret missile site from enemy agents.

A gang of international crooks uses America’s haven of hope for refugees for clandestine purposes.

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

Two teenagers obsessed with aviation invent a device that improves planes’ bombing ability and try to keep it away from international spies.

When a young man’s roommate at Dartmouth is murdered, his gumshoe father investigates and finds a conspiracy. Dir. Charles Lamont

Embezzlers, circus performers and a brothel owner are out to contest the will of a wealthy old spinster.

Reform school student competes with the superintendent for the attention of the school doctor. Art Direction by Vincent Korda.

As if Moriarty wasn’t enough, Holmes must also take on the Nazis in a race to control an evil professor’s secret military weapon, which could spell defeat for the Allies. Based on the story “The Dancing Men” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dir. Roy William Neill

John Clark (Bob Steele) and his deaf pal, Bootch Collum (Buck Connors), are trailed by U. S. Marshal Lamar Bly (Jack Rockwell), who thinks they are part of The Kootney Kid’s (Earl Dwire) gang, which had just held up the stage coach. But the gang attacks the pair, and Bly joins them in the gunfight. Bly is wounded and is taken to a Mexican’s camp to recover. He gives John his badge and authorizes him to take up the hunt. The Kid, unknown to John by sight, is on a ranch which he hopes to gain legal possession of as it has oil. It is really John’s by right, which he does not know until informed by his sweetheart, Joan Vallon (Roberta Gale.) The Kid has taken a letter from the stage holdup which he is using to establish his identity as the rightful owner named Everett Tarkington Clark, John’s real name. John is in [...]