Author Archive: Retro

This is the most panned of the three biographies of songsmith Stephen Foster. Though made on a tiny budget and suffering from limp direction, it does feature 21 of Foster’s best-loved songs. The story portrays Foster as a mild, rather dense bookkeeper with a talent for songwriting. He is in love with a certain woman, but she coldly rejects him. Poor Foster becomes depressed and terribly uninspired. Fortunately, her sister is there to scoop him up and become his new muse.

Bellhop turns detective to find out who”s behind the bizarre happenings in his hotel.

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Based on romantic incidents in the life of Madame Dubarry. A French milliner becomes a casino hostess and courtesan, eventually rising to the position of mistress of King Louis XV.

Directed by Edward Ludwig with Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.

A newlywed couple winds up spending their honeymoon night in an old, dark, spooky mansion.

Hyperactive public relations man for a Hollywood movie studio attempts to show his affection for his sweetheart by turning her into a star. Written by Joseph Santley. Dir. Joseph Santley.

Cape Town, South Africa during the height of Apartheid. A pickpocket gets more than he bargained for when he snatches a purse containing a secret microfilm.
Brolin plays a hard-boiled petty thief and “Jacky” Bisset plays a runner for the spy ring. Claire Trevor plays Sam, the connecting character to the world of petty crime and espionage.