Author Archive: Retro

Feature version of Serial. A masked man known as “The Eagle” sets out to avenge his family.

Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents.

The cast of a play are being murdered by a mysterious hunchback called “The Fiend”, so the author of the play teams up with two reporters to try to catch the killer. Dir. Robert Hill

When Pinky is released from prison, he gets a job as a maintenance man at a large bank, and receives a lot of undue attention from a local hoodlum.

Five passengers on a seaplane find that a crash has stranded them on an island used for nuclear testing in this disaster movie. Just to get to the island, they had to endure many hardships including a hurricane, a gun-battle, shark-infested seas, and a fire on the plane. Panic ensues when the diverse group learns that in five hours, another bomb will be tested there. While the story is action-based, most of the time is spent looking at the individual characters and the way they cope. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

PERFECT ALIBI: Randall investigates a baffling jewel theft at a big movie studio, with suspicions falling on a studio guard whose alibi doesn’t seem to check out. THE QUIET LIONS: Against his better judgement Randall tries to help a movie producer/director out of a jam involving a young female blackmailer who has been found dead. Guest Stars: Stephen (The Shadow on radio for 1/2 season) Courtleigh, Murial Hutchenson. Dir. Breezy Eason.

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper’s daughter he’s fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad.

When a man finds the corpse of his married lover on the beach, he runs to call the police, but witnesses believe he is the killer attempting to escape. Based on the novel “A Shilling For Candles” by Josephine Tey. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

An English man joins an army academy and gets talked into racing horses by a wealthy woman.