Author Archive: Retro

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.

Crabbe tries to save villagers from a killer fever with a serum he’s perfecting, but the boat carrying him and the vaccine is torpedoed by a U-Boat and he washes up on a small island. Dir. Harry L. Fraser

In this cheap independent film, a pyromaniac is on the loose in a small town. Several good-looking young people fall under suspicion. Is it the obvious “punk” type or the clean-cut kid?

Diligent night school law student Cooper runs a newsstand by day, but when young thugs and the mob want a piece of the action, Cooper and his pal Spellman must fight to remain independant. Dir. King Vidor.

Naish is the leader of a Nazi spy ring in San Francisco.

A collection of sexy jokes.

Lawyer working on a case discovers that a probation officer is the man behind a drug smuggling operation.

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