Author Archive: Retro

Lady Bertha Wetherby (Ann Harding) befriends mild-mannered palm reader Mr. Vorhees (Peter Lorre) and invites him to live with her at her estate. Her nephew, Randy (Louis Hayward), suspects that Vorhees is a fraud who is trying to take advantage of her kindness. However, as Randy attempts to expose him, many of Mr. Vorhees’ predictions appear to be coming true…

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.