Author Archive: Retro

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.

Aging civil war veteran finds himself in the middle of a romance between his dying friend’s son and a female hobo.

Money from a grocery business is supposed to go into a nut farm, is invested in movie production instead

Compilation of short subjects in which major celebrities of the day visit New York’s hot spots.

Having struck pay dirt with its Blondie films, Columbia Pictures launched another “domestic” film series, based on Margaret Sidney’s “Five Little Peppers” stories. The third and last entry in the series was The Five Little Peppers in Trouble, neither the best nor worst of this negligible project. Once more, Dorothy Peterson plays the widowed Mrs. Pepper, while her five precocious and resourceful offspring are portrayed by Edith Fellows, Dorothy Ann Seese, Charles Beck, Tommy Bond (best remembered as “Butch” in the Our Gang comedies) and Bobby Larson (replacing Jimmy Leake, who appeared in the first Pepper outing in 1939). Unable to watch over her kids and go to work at the same time, Mrs. Pepper bundles the little Peppers off to boarding school. The Five Little Peppers in Trouble is describable only as “cute”; you take it from there.

A soldier returning to his hometown is picked up by a rich socialite driving a stolen car, but is he a soldier or a deserter?

A man fed up with working for the mob threatens to quit. The mob boss informs him that he is his son.