Author Archive: Retro

Sinatra as an ex-junkie back in town from rehab, but he ends up involved with the same users that got him hooked. Dir. Otto Preminger.

The widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home, has passed away. They are now visited by Middleton’s lawyer, Cribbs, who informs them that Middleton’s son and heir Edward plans to foreclose and take possession of their home. When Mary goes to plead with Edward, she soon discovers that it is really the unscrupulous Cribbs who wants to drive them out of their home. When Mary and Edward become engaged to be married, it looks as if all is well. But the calculating Cribbs has a new plan, which begins with luring young Edward into a lifestyle of drinking and dissipation

Film noir piece in which small Time ex-con gets framed for a robbery. He then goes about searching for the real robbers, only to find that there are many shades of grey in the world of cops and robbers.

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

Chicago reporter celebrates a little too hard following the resolution of a complex mystery and is fired. When he winds up in St. Louis, he must solve a mystery there. Dir. Raymond McCarey.

Several elderly ex-Texas Rangers reunite to stem off corruption in a crooked Texas town. A cast of memorable TV old-timers.

An estranged couple works to rebuild their relationship while constructing their dream house.

Blackmailing nightclub singer is murdered and a gossip columnist must solve the case and clear a college pal of the crime. Dir. Bernard B. Ray (Raymond K. Johnson)