Author Archive: Retro

Author Archives for Retro

Dir. William W. Fox. Boy enters a delivery wagon horse into a horse race. A bold, exciting film with natural compositions that create sonorous implications of rhythm. The freshness lasts right into the sound stage.

In trouble as usual, the Kid sare sent to a New England mountain camp to get them away from bad influences. As it happens, the camp is abuzz with the news of an elusive sex murderer who has been preying on beautiful women. Forced to take refuge in a spooky old mansion, the boys become convinced that their host, a sinister gent named Nardo (Bela Lugosi), is the killer whom the police are seeking. While our heroes busy themselves alternately escaping from and converging upon poor Nardo, the real murderer continues to roam the countryside-and it looks as though camp nurse Linda Mason (Dorothy Short) will be his next victim.

Darro must use his talent for handwriting analysis to expose an international espionage ring. Produced by Grant Withers. Dir. Howard P. Bretherton

Delinquent youngster goes to jail but can’t live down his bad boy image once he’s out. Dir. George Melford.

Kansas girl and ex-governor’s son come to a nightclub to solve her showgirl sister’s murder. Dir. Elmer Clifton

Famed comic actor Joe E. Brown in a rare dramatic role of a German immigrant who works as a circus clown.

Independant businesswoman takes a vow of celibacy, but is tested by a young man from Bali.

An imprisoned man’s son turns to a life of crime in this transitional film for the Bowery Boys and the Dead End Kids.

Fifth in the Mr. Wong series. A man is accused of killing his father-in-law after an argument, but the famous detective feels there’s more than meets the eye in this case, and a cargo of stolen bonds may be part of it. Dir. William Nigh

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