Author Archive: Retro

Fugitive on the run from a murder frame-up picks up a woman and makes a run for the border by entering a car race. Dir. John Ireland.

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a “rescue” effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder’s long-gone and hiding husband.

Gun moll stows away on fishing boat to avoid police and falls in love with the rough captain. Dir. Ingmar Bergman.

Three friends — George (Laurence Harvey), Harris (Jimmy Edwards) and J (David Tomlinson) — decide to escape from their women problems by going boating on the Thames River. With Oxford, England, as their destination, they set out for the trip of a lifetime. Their idyllic cruise soon becomes anything but when they encounter, among other problems, heavy rain and a sailing regatta. But the gloomy outlook brightens when they meet three young and wealthy women.

Cosmo Jones is enlisted by the authorities to find a kidnapped heiress and bust up a gang war. Based on the forties mystery radio program. Dir. James Tinling

The Brothers are private eyes hired to investigate a series of murders at a mysterious mansion. Dir. Allan Dwan.

Senator’s opponent uses his journalist ties to manufacture tabloid headlines concerning the current senator’s son, in order to ruin his credibility. Dir. Lewis D. Collins.

Policeman Jones discovers that his uncle is the crime boss of a local mob.

This is the most panned of the three biographies of songsmith Stephen Foster. Though made on a tiny budget and suffering from limp direction, it does feature 21 of Foster’s best-loved songs. The story portrays Foster as a mild, rather dense bookkeeper with a talent for songwriting. He is in love with a certain woman, but she coldly rejects him. Poor Foster becomes depressed and terribly uninspired. Fortunately, her sister is there to scoop him up and become his new muse.