Author Archive: Retro

A drama about a group of women living in a Hollywood boarding house including a former star and a self-centered beauty contest winner.

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

One of three films made in the sixannounced Morton of the Mounted series: Sergeant Bruce Morton (John Preston ), in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is informed by White Feather (Chief Whire Feather ), an Indian furtrapper, that for many months, most of the local fur trappers have been systematically robbed, but refuses to name the robbers, fearing for his life. Morton, his horse Dynamite (Dynamite the Horse ), his dog Captain (Captain King of Dogs ), and a RCMP corporal, Jimmy Downs (Jimmy Aubrey ), set out to apprehend the culprits. After rescuing Yvonne Travis (June Love ) from the treacherous waters of Horse Shoe Rapids, Morton learns that her father is a fur trader indebted to Monty Mordant (Tom London ), who runs the trading post, and Mordant is using her father’s debt to force Yvonne to marry him. Morton decides that Mordant could bear watching, [...]

A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.

A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she’s the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.

In the small town of Crown Port local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town, where he gets a job as a cab driver. He meets a young girl who is caring for her ill but wealthy aunt. He courts her and they eventually marry. She soon discovers exactly who he is, and finds herself enmeshed in a scheme involving murder and loot from a bank robbery.

U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters.