Author Archive: Retro

Curtis aids a federal agent in locating a map that reveals uranium deposits on a South Pacific island.

Cervantes’ story of an ageing, hopelessly romantic, would-be knight. Dir. Donald Crisp.

Color. An annual tradition in Europe for hundreds of years, this adaption of one of the “Passion Plays” is a straightforward stage re-creation of the life of Christ.

Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs—and then find themselves involved in the real thing.

Ex-well-to-do Hunter marries American heiress for her money but finds she’s broke too.

Manfred, backed by Saracen pirates, deposes the Duke of Montfort, takes over the throne and kidnapped the Duke’s young son. Capt. Riccardo, the leader of a pirate band on the ship Black Hawk, sets out to defeat Manfred and his Saracens and restore the Duke to his rightful place on the throne.

Cortez plays a tough guy in this murder mystery.

When the bride’s mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom’s father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.