Author Archive: Retro

A murder in a creepy old mansion turns the East Side gang into ghost chasers. Features the two-fisted boys from Dead End in the comedy/drama series. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabe Dell and Billy Benedict.

Old-timers are at their wits end when a corrupt, cut-throat trucking firm attempts to drive their railroad into bankruptcy.

The Kids stumble into a haunted house used as a hideout by a Nazi spy.

Nagel portrays an attorney defending five Jews accused of murder.

Ground-breaking pilot Dick Merrill plays himself in this exciting film about a plane owner who goes up against an airplane tycoon in a race over London. Dir. William Nigh.

Boys’ Reformatory was the third of Frankie Darro’s tough-guy vehicles for Monogram Pictures. Darro is cast as orphaned teenager Tommy, who to avoid breaking his foster-mother’s heart takes the rap for a crime committed by his foster-brother Eddie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Sent to a dismal reform school, Tommy finds a friend in the form of school doctor Owens (Grant Withers), a tireless crusader for improved reformatory conditions. With Owens’ help, Tommy is able to take a “vacation” from the institution and round up the crooks responsible for leading Eddie astray.

In deep depression, Prince Florizel discovers an organization which helps people to commit suicide. The thing is, they don’t like these people to change their minds.

British playboy bores of his care-free existence and takes a bet that he can make his own way in the world for a year, without touching his inheritance. Dir. Alfred Zeisler.

Robin Hood star Richard Greene plays an agent who goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered. He is helped by singer Anouk Aimee, who he falls in love with.