Author Archive: Retro

In this early Benny movie, he’s a “Medicine Man” who comes into a small town with enormous fanfare, peddling his all-purpose “health tonic,” in his wake, a long trail of empty wallets and broken hearts lay strewn.

Trials of a teenage girl who gets pregant in the 1930’s.

Hal Roach Streamliner has Summerville as a crazy inventor wreaking havoc on a sexually repressed small town with his gadgets and a powerful love potion.

Group of con artists try to put one over on each another. Dir. Phil Rosen.

While standing at the grave of their beloved headmaster, two schoolboys reminisce about the man who brought them together as friends.

A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry andNurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takesplace in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. Based on Hemmingway novel. AA Cinematography and Sound. AAN Best Picture.

A criminal falls for a girl and decides to go straight.

First sound documentary about Africa.