Author Archive: Retro

Three people bail criminals out of jail for profit. Dir. Charles Lamont.

Desperate woman treks through the jungle to find her husband, a physician who disappeared years earlier. Dir. George Melford

Traveling businessman finds himself married to two different women.

Popular movie singer whose voice is supplied by a background vocalist begins receiving death threats after his press agent is killed. Written by Monte Collins. Dir. Basil Wrangell

Ladd has one of his earliest roles in this comedy with music as he gets mixed up in romantic complications involving two sisters and an opera singer

A doomed, race horse gets a lucky break when a plucky young jockey rescues him from a date with the glue factory and, fixes his wounded leg and prepares him to race again. Unfortunately, just before the Big Race begins, the jockey is kidnapped and must somehow escape in time to ride his steed to victory.

Cantankerous recluse hires a new housekeeper who takes over his life. Dir. Kurt Neumann.

The story focuses on Cecil John Rhodes, a man who did everything from hunting diamonds, acting as a statesman of England and helped organize the colonies of South Africa…as well as being a figure of controversy by today’s standards.

Tonight, first contact will be made! A beautifully-crafted tale of a superior being from Venus who has the power of life and death at his touch. Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal’s glowing and sensitive performance as a woman caught up in the biggest event in history is complemented by Helmut Dantine’s powerful, moving portrayal as the Stranger. Suggested by events in the sci-fi classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” this film is a touching, humanizing and haunting story of “first contact” with a peaceful and advanced intelligence from another planet coming to Earth with an ultimatum and out-of-this-world powers to back it up.