Author Archive: Retro

The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin’s physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang’s activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail.

A mutual agreement between a landowner and his sharecroppers results in a beneficial exchange of identities.

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.

A man is framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he is let out on limited parole, he sets out to clear his name and find the real criminals.

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shellshocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian’s suspicions about Evelyn’s fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

The popular radio characters Lum and Abner make their screen debut in this corny hodgepodge of comedy, melodrama, and music. The story centers around the Jot-Em-Down general store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, where the two yokels work. There they get involved in a series misadventures with the colorful locals.

The Well-paid is a Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout. It was filmed in 1948 and starring María Antonieta Pons and Víctor Junco.

Sky Patrol is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring John Trent as Tailspin Tommy Tomkins.