Author Archive: Retro

A playboy makes a bet that he can live on a desert island without the comforts of civilization.

Veteran newsman is nagged into asking for a raise by his wife and children, and is quickly fired, but finds a successful new career. Dir. Arthur Lubin.

An American developer goes to Australia to build a vacation resort unaware that his crooked partner plans to burn it down and collect the insurance money. Suddenly, the American finds himself facing a maniacal arsonist and muderer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Young girl is determined to steal her older sister’s fiance.

The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler’s power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins

Washigton hostess joins the WAC’s…and discovers tht she’s not at a garden party

Jason Robards is a man who decides he’d rather be a tree.

This film is set in a northern England mining town. The parents of Michael Redgrave have labored long and hard so that their son can make something of himself. While away at school, Redgrave is trapped into marriage by Margaret Lockwood, previously the lady friend of ill-tempered Emlyn Williams.

An expedition captain (Victor McLaglen) sends a honky-tonk hostess (Frances Farmer) to charm a chief’s son (Jon Hall) opposed to pearl diving.