Author Archive: Retro

A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by an courageous undercover city market official.

Cornwall fishermen go to war on a band of French poachers, and must resolve a cross-water romance. Highlighted by real Cornwall fishermen and actual members of the French resistance movement. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer.

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.

Alcoholic reporter is convinced to go straight as he tries to keep an avaricious publisher from exploiting a financially troubled newspaper.

Young girl’s upbringing by an inconsiderate mother makes her grow up to be an evil woman. Dir. Marshall Neilan.

Laurel and Hardy’s best feature film appearance is this stand out classic comedy from 1933. The Boys, henpecked husbands as usual, want to go to their lodge convention but the wives say, “No!” They devise a scheme to convince their wives they are going to Hawaii to cure Ollie of a bad cold and go to the convention anyway, then wish they hadn’t! Filled with Hal Roach character actors this laugh filled film is a must for fans of the Boys and features Charley Chase as an obnoxious convention-goer. Dir. William A. Seiter

Narcotics ring preys on teens but is intimidated by the inquest of a crusading juvenile-court judge. The bad guys involve the judge’s daughter in the ring in an attempt to stop the investigation. Produced by George Weiss.