Author Archive: Retro

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.

Nazi spies infiltrate the US to procure a secret formula from a group of scientists.

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.