Author Archive: Retro

Girl dumps her “small-time” boyfriend who throws himself into his work and becomes successful. Dir. Richard Thorpe.

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolph Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Charming story about a bandleader who falls in love with a Princess.

In this war movie, set in WW II along the Burma Road, a Chinese schoolteacher selflessly risks her life to become a spy for her country.

Treasury Agent goes undercover as an odds maker to catch the Big Cheese behind the syndicate who killed his partner. Produced by Nat Levine. Dir. Edward L. Cahn

Reporter and partner break up sweepstakes ticket rip off.

Bobby Breen and May Robson star in a song-filled tale of a young orphan boy and the ex-slave caring for him in the post-Civil War South, until the child goes to live with a wealthy grandmother in New York. With Louise Beavers, Eddie Rochester Anderson.

Haley as timid insurance salesman Albert Tuttle. Much against his better judgment, Tuttle makes a business call at a sinister old mansion, intending to sell life insurance to the owner. He proves a bit late, inasmuch as the owner has just kicked the bucket. The mansion is full of avaricious relatives, who are obliged by the dictates of the decedent’s will to remain in the house until the authorities claim the body. Realizing that dead man’s niece Carol (Jean Parker) is a damsel in all kinds of distress, Albert decides to stick around to keep Carol from meeting her uncle’s fate. The audience knows who didn’t do it the moment Bela Lugosi shows up as a butler.

College student is blackmailed into performing a series of burglaries, and falls in love with one of his victims.