Author Archive: Retro

Convict leaves jail to seek revenge on the man who framed him. Dir. Howard Hawkes.

Our Heros seek help from a wealthy man when a group of thugs terrorizes the neighborhood. Dir. Wallace Fox.

When her father goes off to the Boer War, he sends his daughter to a boarding school run by a harsh woman .Color. Dir. Walter Lang.

In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend with a dictator. He also falls quietly in love with the leader’s girlfriend. Unfortunately, the evil leader is the head of the air corps, and to get rid of the young man who threatens his relationship, he send the hero on a suicide mission. The two rivals end up in a dogfight. Fortunately, the hero wins the fight and gets the girl.

It looks like the end of the line for Poco and Kim when they are separated following a car accident. Poco’s relentless search takes him through the desert. Bravely facing the odds, Poco encounters many dangers, and makes some new friends.

In this drama, a wealthy, aristocratic New Yorker, thinking his son is a panty-waist, decides to make a real man of him and sends him to work in a lumber camp. Unbeknownst to the father, the boy is already a famous wrestler known as the mysterious Masked Marvel.

A man returns from his grave to terrorize and torture small town citizens.

Up-and-coming ball player finds himself up to his neck in gambling debts and must shave points off the Big Game so crooks will leave him alone. Photographed by Stanley Cortez. Dir. Malcolm St. Clair.

Olivier is forced to share a hotel suite with Oberon who soon disappears.