Author Archive: Retro

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Based on romantic incidents in the life of Madame Dubarry. A French milliner becomes a casino hostess and courtesan, eventually rising to the position of mistress of King Louis XV.

Directed by Edward Ludwig with Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.

A newlywed couple winds up spending their honeymoon night in an old, dark, spooky mansion.

Hyperactive public relations man for a Hollywood movie studio attempts to show his affection for his sweetheart by turning her into a star. Written by Joseph Santley. Dir. Joseph Santley.

Cape Town, South Africa during the height of Apartheid. A pickpocket gets more than he bargained for when he snatches a purse containing a secret microfilm.
Brolin plays a hard-boiled petty thief and “Jacky” Bisset plays a runner for the spy ring. Claire Trevor plays Sam, the connecting character to the world of petty crime and espionage.

A credit-card computer error results in three deaths and a traumatic confrontation between humans and machines.

Chaney in dual role as a detective and the deformed assistant to an international jewel thief. The detective tracks the thief to Singapore, then must impersonate the killer’s assistant to bring the thief to justice. Made slightly before “The Shadow of Silk Lennox”, this film is the first time actor Creighton Chaney began billing himself as Lon Chaney Jr. Dir. Fred Newmeyer