Author Archive: Retro

The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists’ homes during the American Revolutionary War.

Eighteen-year-old Johnnie, chafing under his father’s authority, seeks to get a job, buy a hot-rod, woo his girl, and stand up to the local bully.

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land.

Army guy with a reputation for winning outrageous wagers, bets his friends that the next morning he’ll be having breakfast with the General. Dir. John G. Blystone.

Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. He does not really want the girls to live with him, but his strict religious background will not allow him to stand by and let them be raised in an atmosphere of ‘sin.’

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.