Author Archive: Retro

In this drama, a gambling-addicted housewife resorts to stealing from the family savings account to feed her obsession. Trouble ensues when her husband finds out.

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

The courageous crime-buster battles against a villain who has brainwashed Tracy’s brother. Feature version of serial. Dir. Alan James, Ray Taylor

Film producer uses stunt men with little regard for safety.

A doctor’s sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.

Wealthy entrepreneur living a life of leisure decides its time for a change and finds himself involved in a scandal. Dir. Charles Lamont.

Highlights two love stories: a working-class girl’s romance, and the affair of a beautiful society debutante.

Joan Crawford. A puritanical minister attempts to reclaim a “lost woman” on the isle of Pago Pago. Based on play by Somerset Maugham.