Author Archive: Retro

The popular radio characters Lum and Abner make their screen debut in this corny hodgepodge of comedy, melodrama, and music. The story centers around the Jot-Em-Down general store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, where the two yokels work. There they get involved in a series misadventures with the colorful locals.

The Well-paid is a Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout. It was filmed in 1948 and starring María Antonieta Pons and Víctor Junco.

Sky Patrol is a 1939 American film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring John Trent as Tailspin Tommy Tomkins.

The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn’t do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for vagrancy. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married. A minister stands up and offers to perform the ceremony. Mary is appreciative to her ‘new’ husband for saving her from jail, but she sees him as a rich playboy who got drunk and decided to be gallant. She gives him instructions to move on, but he persists on taking care of his wife. And about the time she has decided that she loves him, his parents show up with lots of objections.

A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can’t buy the one thing he craves: love.

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison’s only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients–and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.