Author Archive: Retro

Homeless man is chosen to represent the common man in a political good-will campaign. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus.

During the Korean War, a tough GI leads a group of misfit recruits on an impossible mission. Dir. Franklin Adreon

Renfrew investigates illegal gold operations in the Yukon.

Young couple are framed for robbery and go to jail. When they get out of prison, they fall in love, but are soon falsely accused again. Who’s setting them up? Produced by Phil Rosen. Dir. Phil Rosen

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

On a stormy night, a theatrical producer, his secretary, and playwright Prescott Ames are stranded when their car skids off the road and gets stuck. The three take refuge in the nearby home of Dr. Kent, a friend of Ames. One of Kent’s patients, who is staying at the house, is acting strangely, and the others in the house tell the newcomers that she is behaving this way because it is the anniversary of her husband’s murder. At dinner, the group begins exchanging accusations about the murder, when suddenly the lights go out, and soon afterwards comes the first in a series of mysterious and fearful events.

Martin and Lewis’ first starring vehicle has the duo as army recruits who get mixed up in all kinds of wild situations at their army base. Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II. Great musical comedy, featuring Jerry Lewis at his slapstick best. Dir. Hal Walker.

The story of the famous turn-of-the-century race horse. Dir. Joseph Newman.

Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O’Keefe), a brilliant young inventor, is confronted with the gift he gave Mabel, an old flame of his, before he was married. Mabel, about to be married to his partner, Arthur (Lee Bowman), wants to make a fresh start of things by showing the present, which is monogrammed with a sentimental jingle, to Gary’s wife and her own future husband. The inventor, mortally afraid of his jealous wife, takes his dour manservant Boris (Mischa Auer) along with him to the snow lodge of his partner where the two couples and their friends are staying over the weekend, and hires him to steal the present. From then on, a long list of misunderstandings, hilarious incidents and general bedlam result in a happy ending!