Author Archive: Retro

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.

Conte, a Mexican boxer, uses his winnings to buy arms in an effort to overthrow the dictator who murdered his family.

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the “back-room boy” investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.