Author Archive: Retro

Hair-raising adventures of a big-city fire department’s “Suicide Squad” rescue unit, and the difficulty that develops when a new recruit is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Produced by Sam Katzman. Dir. Bernard B. Ray (Raymond K. Johnson)

In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song. They then fall in love. She is a feisty, untamed sort and soon after the wedding, the fireworks begin as they constantly bicker. At one point their rows become so violent that they nearly destroy a house. The plot is based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

English government tries to stop brandy smuggling, but can they do it before the townspeople drink the evidence? Written by Derek Twist.

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.