Author Archive: Retro

Fortune-telling racket leads Chan and his daughter into the occult when he is invited to a seance to solve a mystery. Written by George Callahan. Dir. Phil Rosen

In the field of science, Ken (Dennis O’Keefe) is a genius, but not when it comes to women. When he is subpoenaed to testify in court about his one-time purchase of an expensively jeweled garter for a glamorous former girl friend, Gertie (Marie McDonald), he is seized with fear and dismay. You see, he has just been elected into the Society of Scientific Research and he shudders that the Society and his wife, Patty (Sheila Ryan), will find out about Gertie. Ken pulls himself together and goes to work but his efforts to retrieve the garter lead him and Gertie into one compromising situation after another. The climax comes when all the principals become involved in a hilarious hayloft mixup. Finally, Gertie tires of it all and tells the real innocent story and the entire scramble is resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.

Fugitive on the run from a murder frame-up picks up a woman and makes a run for the border by entering a car race. Dir. John Ireland.

Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge’s Jot-’em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a “rescue” effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder’s long-gone and hiding husband.

Gun moll stows away on fishing boat to avoid police and falls in love with the rough captain. Dir. Ingmar Bergman.

Three friends — George (Laurence Harvey), Harris (Jimmy Edwards) and J (David Tomlinson) — decide to escape from their women problems by going boating on the Thames River. With Oxford, England, as their destination, they set out for the trip of a lifetime. Their idyllic cruise soon becomes anything but when they encounter, among other problems, heavy rain and a sailing regatta. But the gloomy outlook brightens when they meet three young and wealthy women.

Cosmo Jones is enlisted by the authorities to find a kidnapped heiress and bust up a gang war. Based on the forties mystery radio program. Dir. James Tinling

The Brothers are private eyes hired to investigate a series of murders at a mysterious mansion. Dir. Allan Dwan.

Senator’s opponent uses his journalist ties to manufacture tabloid headlines concerning the current senator’s son, in order to ruin his credibility. Dir. Lewis D. Collins.