Author Archive: Retro

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.

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.