Author Archive: Retro

Industrialists start dropping dead after they invent a revolutionary new poison gas. Mr. Wong must weed through all the suspects to bring the real killer to justice. Based on the stories by Hugh Wiley. Dir. William Nigh

Bold journalists investigate a gang of criminals, but end up biting off more than they can handle.

One of series of thrillers by Edgar Wallace.

G.I.’s in Korea in 1951 are explained the meaning of life and by a preacher.

Compilation of Mickey McGuire comedies with a 10-year old Rooney! Mickey, with grown up members of the Toonerville Kids with flashbacks of The original Toonerville shorts.

Sinatra as an ex-junkie back in town from rehab, but he ends up involved with the same users that got him hooked. Dir. Otto Preminger.

The widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home, has passed away. They are now visited by Middleton’s lawyer, Cribbs, who informs them that Middleton’s son and heir Edward plans to foreclose and take possession of their home. When Mary goes to plead with Edward, she soon discovers that it is really the unscrupulous Cribbs who wants to drive them out of their home. When Mary and Edward become engaged to be married, it looks as if all is well. But the calculating Cribbs has a new plan, which begins with luring young Edward into a lifestyle of drinking and dissipation

Film noir piece in which small Time ex-con gets framed for a robbery. He then goes about searching for the real robbers, only to find that there are many shades of grey in the world of cops and robbers.

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.