Author Archive: Retro

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.

The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6-8 and 13-16 of The Book of Judges.

A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!

Alaskan salmon fisherman battles a corrupt competitor and falls in love with a beautiful society girl and a bawdy barmaid. Dir. George Archainbaud

Clarke and McCullogh. A compilation of early shorts.

Amnesiac soldier marries a girl, and wakes up to find he has twin daughters!

Based on the famed comic strip “Joe Palooka”. A fast talking manager introduces a naive country bumpkin to boxing. Dir. Stanley Donen.

A soldier is knocked unconscious and dreams? Written by Bud Flanagan. Dir. Frank Strayer.

An attractive young hitchhiker named Ginger meets and and takes up with a lonely, middle-aged advertising executive who is recently divorced. He is inspired by her free-spirited independence while she is drawn to his old-fashioned romanticism.