Author Archive: Retro

A sailor hitchhiking to his base at San Pedro and an orphan boy who has taken along his dog in a search for a mother and father meet up on the road. The sailor decides it would be easier to get a ride if they pretended to be father and son; the boy has other ideas.

To protect his foster mother, an orphan takes the rap for a crime committed by his step-brother, and ends up in the state industrial school. Dir. Howard Bretherton.

An astronaut working for a private corporation touches down on a former Nazi’s southern Mexico ranch.

In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife’s lover, must escape from Devil’s Island. His success inspires him to write an opera.

Romance between two young demolitions experts gets explosive when an ex-G.I gets in the middle of things.

British soldier returns home, finding the government has faked his death, and blackmailed him into accepting an assignment to kill a German agent. Based on the novel “Ashenden” by M. Somerset Maugham. Produced by Michael Balcon, Edited by Charles Frend, Filmed by Bernard Knowles. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

After writing elaborate tales to his war correspondent son, making junior think that Dad’s a local hero, pops must think fast when when he receives a telegram announcing his son’s impending visit. Dir. Frank McDonald.

The British sleuth (John Howard) marries Phyllis (Louise Campbell) and nabs diamond counterfeiters for a Scotland Yard colonel (John Barrymore).