Author Archive: Retro

Female murder victims are found with their right fingers missing, and it’s up to Sherlock Holmes to find a motive behind these seemingly random acts of violence. Based on the story “The Adventure of the Empty House” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dir. Roy William Neill

Scientist’s daughter escapes from a concentration camp in Prague with the help of a fellow captive and an English double-agent. Wayne and Radford reprise their roles from Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”, as two cricket-obsessed Brits. Dir. Carol Reed

Philippine nationalist rebels against American occupation in 1902, but is torn between fighting off the soldiers and allowing them to help his people with food and medicine. Written by Eddie Romero. Dir. Gerardo de Leon , Eddie Romero.

In this early Benny movie, he’s a “Medicine Man” who comes into a small town with enormous fanfare, peddling his all-purpose “health tonic,” in his wake, a long trail of empty wallets and broken hearts lay strewn.

Trials of a teenage girl who gets pregant in the 1930’s.

Hal Roach Streamliner has Summerville as a crazy inventor wreaking havoc on a sexually repressed small town with his gadgets and a powerful love potion.

Group of con artists try to put one over on each another. Dir. Phil Rosen.

While standing at the grave of their beloved headmaster, two schoolboys reminisce about the man who brought them together as friends.