Author Archive: Retro

The town of Buttonhole Bend is in the clutches of the Butcher Baer (Max Baer) gang who have killed every sheriff and robbed every bank in the territory. The brains behind the gang is saloon owner Square Deal Sal9Hillary Brooke). Skipalong Rosenbloom (Maxie Rosenbloom) comes to town and is tricked into becoming the sheriff. He falls in love with Miss Caroline Witherspoon(Jacqueline Fontaine), the town schoolmar’m. Skipalong finally corners Butcher in Square Deal Sal’s saloon, beats him up and corrals the rest of the gang.

A crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code.

Tarzan helps a girl in her search for her missing father, finding a lost city and an evil Arab along the way. Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Produced by Sol Lesser. Dir. Robert Hill. Adapted by serial of same title.

Boy runs away from home after his schoolmaster rebukes him; boy’s story in the grand manner.

Two bumbling insurance agents try to help a beautiful heiress restore an old hotel, which happens to be a gangster hangout.

Blackmailer claims to be a bridegroom”s long-lost illegitimate son. Dir. Howard Bretherton.

Featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this stagebound murder-mystery.A third adaptation of the stage play by F. Brooke Warren, this film stars Slaughter as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo, a respected Parisian aristocrat responsible for the ghastly crimes previously attributed to a notorious killer known only as “The Wolf.” Del Gardo has concocted a devious plan with his deranged, brutish brother to pull off a rash of bank robberies, using The Wolf’s murderous ways to throw police off their trail. Their plans are foiled in the end, though del Gardo apparently escapes the clutches of the law. One of Slaughter’s better efforts, made bearable by a brief running time.

Frank “Bring-Em-Back-Alive” Buck comes to the rescue in Malaya when Nazis begin using man-eating tigers to shut down the Allies’ rubber production. Produced by Jack Schwarz. Dir. Sam Newfield

Another in the famous series of Doctor Christian films, adapted from the radio programs.