Author Archive: Retro

Mugs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), top dog of the East Side Kids, takes a job at an airplane plant. Here he grows suspicious of Dr. Nagel (George Pembroke), operator of a flying ambulance service. Mugs becomes convinced that Nagel is using his plane to smuggle aviation secrets to a gang of enemy agents, but he can’t prove his allegations. With the help of his East Side pals Danny (Bobby Jordan), Scruno (“Sunshine Sammy” Morrison), Peewee (David Gorcey) and Louie (Bobby Stone), Mugs gets the goods on the duplicitous Doc-but nearly gets killed in the process. A not-bad combination of comedy and melodrama, Flying Wild offers the viewers a more intelligent group of “East Side Kids” than they’re accustomed to. Even so, this is the film in which Leo Gorcey introduces the comic malapropisms for which he became famous.

Shortly after a medial student takes a room in an actress?s house, London is terrified by a series of murders committed by a man the press calls ?Jack the Ripper?. Tense drama; a remade of Hitchcock?s ?The Lodger?. Dir. Hugo Fregonese.

Out of the comic strips step the characters, Snuffy Smith and Barney Google, two soldiers who are sent to guard a top-secret missile site from enemy agents.

A gang of international crooks uses America’s haven of hope for refugees for clandestine purposes.

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

Two teenagers obsessed with aviation invent a device that improves planes’ bombing ability and try to keep it away from international spies.

When a young man’s roommate at Dartmouth is murdered, his gumshoe father investigates and finds a conspiracy. Dir. Charles Lamont

Embezzlers, circus performers and a brothel owner are out to contest the will of a wealthy old spinster.

Reform school student competes with the superintendent for the attention of the school doctor. Art Direction by Vincent Korda.