Author Archive: Retro

Old newspaperman, driven by thoughtless family, loses his job but finds success on radio.

A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.

A stenographer (Inez Courtney) pushes a playwright (Reginald Denny) to solve backstage murders.

The castaways return to civilization after 14 years on their desert isle and find a very different world waiting for them.

In this espionage drama, a Danish merchant sea captain takes on a mysterious passenger and finds himself involved with a ring of London spies. Mayhem ensues.

Upon being taken under the wing of a local kung fu overlord, young Hsiao Hai falls desperately in love with the local food stall girl. Luckily, she and her father are Mantis Fist masters, and they soon set Hsiao straight–it seems that his boss is also a notorious crime lord. Betrayed and alone, Hsiao must face his former friend in deadly acrobatic combat. But things take a turn for the worse when it is discovered that the crooked crime czar has mastered the skill of the dreaded “chicken fist!” Will our nimble hero get the girl and save the day?

Nazi spies use intimidation and blackmail to try to get a synthetic gasoline formula from an American scientist. Dir. Albert Herman

Psychotic lion tamer kills his lady assistant to make room for a new one, but the performer’s rival suspects foul play. Produced by William H. Pine & William C. Thomas. Dir. William A. Berke

Mr. Wong investigates the theft of a gigantic, cursed Chinese sapphire stolen from a museum, and how it relates to the murder of a gem collector. Dir. William Nigh