Author Archive: Retro

An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around–and not necessarily for the better.

The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.

The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.

A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.

After briefly splitting for a brace of unsuccessful solo ventures, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were reunited in one of their best vehicles, Caught Plastered. Bert and Bob are cast as itinerant vaudevillians Tommy and Egbert, who find themselves stranded in a small Midwestern town. Here they befriend Mrs. Talley (Lucy Beaumont), the sweet old proprietor of a near-bankrupt drugstore. To prevent slimy medicinal wholesaler Harry Waters (Jason Robards Sr.) from buying the store at a ridiculously low sum, the boys decide to help Mrs. Talley drum up business. They set up a soda fountain, novelties counter, book shop and even a radio station (“Y.M.I Broadcasting”) in the store, and soon business is booming. But Waters, who secretly moonlights as a bootlegger, sabotages the enterprise by spiking the store’s lemon syrup with booze. Things look bad when Tommy’s sweetheart Peggy (Dorothy Lee) — who happens to be the daughter of the [...]

A gangster learns that his cohorts can’t be trusted when he is nabbed by federal treasury agents.

Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Jacques Brachart is a parvenu in the finance, the boss of the African Coppers. The D’Andeline are noble but pennyless. They make their daughter Anne-Marie marry Brachart. A marriage of convenience for them. But Brachart is really in love with Anne-Marie, though she can hardly stand him. One days, she takes a lover, Jerome Le Govain, a dandy whose money comes from Brachart’s advises… A fierce melodrama.