Author Archive: Retro

A wealthy young boy who willingly deserts his parents from a luxury ocean liner serves as the catalyst in this rollicking musical.

Tone starrs as a private detective hired by a politician to investigate his wife’s history.

In and around some great blues, swing and jazz music, a very unpopular band-leader. Prince Ellis, is killed in a Harlem nightclub, and, in and around some more great music, a detective finds the lists of suspects is very long, as Prince Ellis was indeed very unpopular with many citizens.

British crime thriller.

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

It is Richard Talmadge times two in this low-budget action adventure about a young man, Dick Rainey, who switches places with Norman Gray, a look-alike thief out to double-cross the gang. The latter ends up very much dead and Dick has a hard time explaining his real identity. Lovely Audrey Ferry (Janet Chandler) believes him, though, and together they catch the real crooks. Filmed at Universal by Reliable Pictures Corp., Now or Never was retitled Tearing Into Trouble when released to television in the early ’50s. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi

Stuffy father tries to fix up his playboy son with a poor, honest young woman, but she falls for dad instead. Dir. George Archainbaud.

Hopkins spends much of the movie playing out scenarios of how his murder trial would play out if he killed his wife, with a portrait ofhis father playing the judge. He goes through different methods of killing her, and playsout the trial until he finds the mistake in his plan. These one-man scenes are very funny,and Hopkins delivers them expertly, as one would expect.

Man gets in trouble with the law for beating up on the wealthy man who’s leading his underage sister astray.