Author Archive: Retro

A gang of streetwise kids gets help from a crook turned detective in stopping a counterfeiting ring. With Leon Ames, Joyce Bryant and Dave O’Brien.

The story of America’s most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during the Depression. Ma Barker and her outlaw progeny go on the lam until the police finally corner her in her richly appointed Florida hideout. A bloody shoot-out ensues.

An innocent man is accused, tried, and convicted of an unknown crime; the more he investigates the accusations, the farther he falls into a pit of bureaucratic red tape. Screenplay by Orson Welles, from the novel by Franz Kafka. Dir. Orson Welles

A stuffy town gets a breath of fresh air when Mrs Polly barges into a town meeting and stirs things up.

An orphan and his dog run away. Dir. Charles Martin.

Cattle thieves attack every cattle drive that comes near Hagerstown. If they do not sell their cattle for 50 cents on the dollar, they are all stolen. U.S. Marshal Stormy has been sent to end this reign of terror and to find the stolen cattle. He starts with a patrol of cattleman that blast every attempt of the outlaws to steal the herd.

Psychological drama dealing with Richards returning to the site of her murdered aunt.

Owner of oil refinery resorts to bribery, sabotage, murder, and abduction to acquire a rich oil field. Dir. Russell Hopton.

On a transatlantic liner, a new cocktailhas a sensational effect on a mild mannered hero.