Author Archive: Retro

Naive schoolteacher who yearns for one day of excitement, gets her wish when she ends up running from the mob in a stolen limosine with a dead body in the backseat! Dir. Al Christie

A smooth-talking medicine man comes to the aid of the town beauty. Dir. Scott Pembroke.

Med student Lewis Moffitt harbours a secret fear of the dark stemming from a traumatic childhood incident involving a corpse. Nonetheless, he pretends to be unaffected during the first autopsy witnessed by his class, and generally affects an attitude of fearlessness. This, however, inspires his would-be frat brothers to conceive a particularly morbid initiation ritual — one which will, inevitably, go horribly awry.

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

Man’s best friend joins the K-9 Corps and goes to war on the Japanese when two children volunteer him for combat. Dir. Herbert Kline

Mr bogs wins $1500 in a contest. He quits his job and starts a barrel factory.

Poor but happy young couple receive money from a wealthy relative, and realize their dream to take a trip around the world, but wind up less happy than before. Written by Alfred Hitchcock. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Page boy and his pal get a chance to get their comedy program aired.

Lawyer uses technicalities to keep her criminal clients out of jail, which upsets her fiance, a police detective. Dir. William Christy Cabanne.