Author Archive: Retro

Competent doctor ignores scruples to become successful, but a crippled little boy shows him where his real obligations lie. An early appearance by Rooney before he became famous. Dir. John Robertson.

Mann takes son Bushman for a two-year vacation in a drier climate while his business partner back home writes him off as a failure.

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive’s leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing

Fifty years in the life of a midwestern schoolteacher whose frustrated romances leave her to concentrate instead on the lives of her students. Dir. Tay Garnett.

Slapstick comedy results as an amateur sleuth group pursues a sinister swami to a haunted, secret-panel filled mansion. Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone.

Offbeat film about a gem-smuggling, bogus sea captain who is exposed when he attempts to slip diamonds into an actress’s bracelet. Dir. Lew Landers.

After getting in trouble with local gangs, a young man (Fu Sheng) flees to San Francisco, where the same gangs are still causing problems. He becomes a part of one gang, and eventually decides to play them against each other in order to clean up the town.

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women, and the only men to be found are the early Romans themselves; every crook, thief and cutthroat that the ancient Italian peninsula has to offer… Spurred on by the discontent of his newly founded city’s populous, Romulus hatches a plan that will not only bring even more glory and fame to his already notorious city’s reputation for harboring every criminal in the land, but a plan that will bring a much needed quickening to his men… Women, but with one draw back: the early Romans are going to have to do what they do best, steal them! Sword fighting, womanizing and cunning underhand tactics ensue, as Romulus and his small but capable Roman force raid the Sabine people for everything that Rome demands! The Romans surely do start out as they later go on to do, conquer the known world for [...]

Industrialists start dropping dead after they invent a revolutionary new poison gas. Mr. Wong must weed through all the suspects to bring the real killer to justice. Based on the stories by Hugh Wiley. Dir. William Nigh