Author Archive: Retro

In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel’s estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort Benning, Georgia is followed in semi-documentary style, with time out for personal dramas and the romantic rivalry of Bill and Don over the sergeant’s daughter.

Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity, an educated black man who doesn’t really fit in with the natives, nor the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

The mental condition of psychiatrist’s wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her phobia of white carnations.

Story detailing the 14th Century and the people of Switzerland in danger of being sold as slaves and losing their land and belongings.

An ex-detective gets a job as an investigator digging up dirt on celebrities for a tabloid scandal sheet.

As a killer stalks employees, their employer becomes brutal as a result.

A pilot (John David Horsley) and his dog crash-land near an island where a German trader (Noah Beery) has natives restless.

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother’s execution.