Author Archive: Retro

When her mother dies in childbirth, a young girl is taken in by her rich uncle and falls in love with the boy next door. Dir. Hamilton MacFadden.

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An impoverished family of acrobats is befriended by a squirrel who helps them attain a fortune. Dir. Irving Pichel.

An Austrian mountain-climber ends up as a prisoner-of-war, escapes and befriends Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama.

Escaped convict returns home to visit his former girlfriend who is now married and has a family. Written by Robert Hamer. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.

Two pilot friends, Harlan and Delaney, enlist in the airplane border patrol and are sent across the Mexican border disguised as smugglers to break up a gang.

Yeoman loves an outlaw’s daughter. He does not know that in reality she is a kidnapped heiress.

A gang leader dumps her criminal boyfriend when he is convicted of robbery, but he recovers the stolen loot once he’s released. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps his son and demands the money as ransom.