Author Archive: Retro

Innocent purchasers of cheap music boxes begin turning up dead, and Sherlock Holmes believes this has something to do with some stolen Bank of England plates. Rathbone and Bruce’s final appearance in the Holmes series. Produced by Roy William Neill. Dir. Roy William Neill

A doctor uses shock treatment to treat his most aggressive patients. Controversial film. AKA: HAPPINESS CAGE, THE; THE DEMON WITHIN

A teenaged boy arrives in Hollywood to become a movie star, but winds up becoming a male prostitute and gets involved with a gay football star.

Newspaper war; one paper engages gangsters to fight the other paper.

Story of two young, small-time hoods who spend time at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Arnold Jr.’s first film.

Shot on location in the famed national park, which becomes the setting for murder as gangsters search for a hidden cache of money they stashed there almost twenty years earlier. Dir. Arthur Lubin

Archaeologist escapes an ill-fated expedition, only to find out that a curse has followed him home and is killing off everyone around him. Dir. William Nigh

Canadian Mountie Renfrew’s investigation into a gold theft brings him to a suspicious air-freight service in the Yukon.

City girl Grey comes to Arlen’s Nevada ranch and finds out her husband is a big time gangster.