Author Archive: Retro

The “Scarlet Pimpernel” legend is updated to WWII in this breathless actioner. Leslie Howard plays mild-mannered Professor Smith, who under cover of darkness transforms into a tireless defender of democracy. With several loyal companions, Smith makes several forays into Nazi-occupied territories to rescue the oppressed victims of the Third Reich.

Newsreel men invent a television device that revolutionizes their business.

An Eastern European escapes to America, where Communist agents try to track him down.

Young mobster impersonates a local hayseed in order to join the marines and steal secret plans for an aerial torpedo. Produced by Armand Schaefer. Dir. John H. Auer

Based on a socially-conscious and controversial Victorian play, this British drama exposes the inhumane practices to be found in London prisons.

A race-car driver, injured in a deliberate on-track wreck staged by a rival, loses his nerve and his girl.

Powerful financier hires a young American to find people from his past, but he finds they are all dead. Written and Produced by Orson Welles.

A knowledgeable doctor, (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus changing the town’s young people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries cure it.

Adapted from a tale by Thomas L. Dixon, this socially-conscious drama chronicles the courage of a selfless woman who gives up her life to prevent a clan of secretive racists from terrorizing a community.