Author Archive: Retro

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 [...]

Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money into Lisbon.

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.