Author Archive: Retro

While the FBI is busy chasing wartime spies and saboteurs, aging gangsters try to bring back the good ol’ days by making a crook’s son the figurehead of a phony insurance firm. Dir. Arthur Dreifuss.

Dir. Ingmar Bergman. A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with agreat movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. Thedirector rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of awriter, a friend of the director’s, and a young prostitute he lovesseem to prove that the math teacher might have the right idea.

When Dagwood blows a big construction deal he winds up working on the site with the hardhats. Can Blondie save the day by winning the prize in a radio quiz show? Dir. Edward Bernds.

Retired colonel stirs the locals into action through a newspaper column after seeing the actions of currupt politicians. He uses military tacticts to keep an old historical courthouse open and defeats the criminals.

G.I. marries a girl while he has amnesia and then doesn’t know anything about it when confronted with twin daughters.

Beautiful, starving street urchin becomes a high-diving trapeze star, but tragedy ensues when two men pine for her attentions. Filmed in Munich. Written by Kurt Neumann. Color. Dir. Kurt Neumann.

When the possession of a priceless postage stamp becomes the motive for murder, Ellery Queen is summoned to investigate.

Commandos parachute into Norway to rescue an Allied general, reuniting one of the men with his Norwegian sweetheart, who has since turned traitor. Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet

To raise money to buy the magazine for which they work, an editor teams up with a photographer to get photos of a reclusive debutante. When the buyer of the pictures is found killed, the two have to solve a mystery. Produced by William C. Thomas and William H. Pine. Dir. Lew Landers