Author Archive: Retro

Dir: Charles Guggenheim. 19-year-old McQueen stars as the getaway driver in a St. Louis bank robbery that does not go quite as planned.

An evil desert bandit kidnaps the son of a sultan and raises him as his own. It turns out that the son has magic powers and is invincible. Years later, as a young man, he falls in love with a woman and is preparing to raid a village–when he finds out that the woman is actually his brother’s fiance and the village belongs to his real father.

In this episode of the popular mystery series, the crook turned sleuth must clear his name after he is accused of murder. To help him, Blackie enlists the aid of his pal. Together they reveal the real murderer before the Inspector can put Blackie back in jail.

THe head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane

Joseph Cates (Who Killed Teddy Bear?) directed this insipid, widely reviled musical-comedy featuring heavyset comedian Jack E. Leonard in his leaden screen debut as twins Irving and Herman. The plot concerns some teenagers searching for treasure on a tropical island owned by a cosmetics tycoon (Brian Donlevy). His daughter (Jayne Mansfield, a year before her death) heaves her bosom a great deal and sings (badly). The best singing is done by lead teen Jordan Christopher, making his own screen debut with some promising numbers backed by the Wild Ones. There are a number of subplots involving spies, mermaids, and the legendary Fountain of Youth, as well as some amusing interplay between Leonard and Phyllis Diller to keep things interesting.

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.

The Boys become foster dads to an orphan in this Stooge-like comedy.

George Montgomery plays a cynical doctor that is taken to prison at Samar island because his political opinions. The commander (Gilbert Roland) is waiting for his own doctor, that is supposed to work with him in moving the population to the interior.

Hospital soap opera about the lives of various patients and staff members. Color. Dir. Robert North Bradbury.