Author Archive: Retro

A young boy born into a poor family with an alcoholic father, turns to a life of crime.

Group of poor kids in Hell’s Kitchen grow up to very different lives, with a string of murders bringing them back together as adults.

Sympathetic neighbors come to the aid of an uncaring mother of a swamp child.

An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler’s Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.

A man’s heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

During a milk strike, a new teacher arrives in town and tries to save a young boy from an alcoholic father and a life of poverty. Dir. Eddie Cline.

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

Up and coming politician is blackmailed by a manipulative woman.