Author Archive: Retro

Detective Thatcher Colt must wade through the red herrings at the scene of an opera house, where a hateful diva has been murdered. Dir. William Beaudine

Popular stage performer runs away to join the gypsies.

College boy returns to his Florida hometown to find his childhood friends have become sponge poachers. Dir. John Emerson

A cynical and ruthless racketeer befalls tragedy and he turns into a desperate and frightened man.

Marines try to thwart gang of bandits. Dir. Phil Rosen.

Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew…who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there’ll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge’s former sweetheart Leslie, who’s fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?

Musical comedy about a family man saving to buy the barber shop he works at. Dir. Basil Dearden.

On the way to an Adirondacks summer camp, The Kids’ car breaks down and they must solve a mystery at the house of a judge who gives them accommodations. Dir. Joseph H. Lewis.

Fast paced comedy concerning a honeymooning couple who only have one night together before he’s shipped off to the army. They are constantly harassed by a dead body which keeps disappearing, gangsters looking for stolen loot, a bumbling house detective, and the police. Dir. Dave Fleischer.