Author Archive: Retro

This is a made for TV movie starring Sally Field and is essentially a story of family interaction through the generations. When Field leaves home to live on a commune, where she experiments with drugs, her decision to return home creates emotional strains on the younger and older generations. Sensitive performances.

Comedy short with Edgar Kennedy.

A musical biography of American composer Stephen Foster.

Detective Thatcher Colt must wade through the red herrings at the scene of an opera house, where a hateful diva has been murdered. Dir. William Beaudine

Popular stage performer runs away to join the gypsies.

College boy returns to his Florida hometown to find his childhood friends have become sponge poachers. Dir. John Emerson

A cynical and ruthless racketeer befalls tragedy and he turns into a desperate and frightened man.

Marines try to thwart gang of bandits. Dir. Phil Rosen.

Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew…who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there’ll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge’s former sweetheart Leslie, who’s fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?