Author Archive: Retro

In this drama, a writer, dissatisfied with his flagging career, decides to raise some money by walking from New York to San Francisco in six months. Along the way, he will be writing about the experience. One of his buddies bets that the writer won’t make it, and this makes him even more determined. Along the way, a terrible storm erupts forcing the intrepid ambler to take refuge in a cabin. There he encounters a runaway and her two little sisters. Trouble ensues when the cabin’s owner and some mobsters show up to retrieve their loot. The writer is ecstatic. At last he has some decent material to write about. He joyfully begins to write.

A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor (narrator).

Henry (James Mason) and Emilie Smedhurst (Barbara Mullen) are an older couple who have been successful in business and are nearing retirement. They buy a dilapidated mansion that has been vacant for 40 years, intending to renovate. However, soon after the Smedhursts move in, they hear that the house is haunted. They dismiss the theory — until their young guest, Annette Allenby (Margaret Lockwood), is possessed by the spirit of a murdered invalid on an eternal quest for retribution.

Lawyer Ginger Rogers is hired to keep dumb cowboy Jack Carson out of trouble.

Tarzan, “The Police Dog,” stars in this ultra low-budget thriller from independent producer Bert Sternbach. The human leads, Marion Shilling and Charles Delaney, play reporters assigned to cover the wedding between members of warring Tong families. Expected to end generations of feud between the Lings and the Wongs, the nuptials turn into tragedy when a mystery intruder clad in Ling family attire valuable snatches the necklace from the bride. As the groom (Wing Foo) attempts to stop the fleeing thief, he is brutally shot and killed and his father calls for the feud to continue. Meanwhile, cub reporter Ann Parker (Shilling) is kidnapped by the murderer (Paul Ellis), who thinks she may be able to identify him. But Tarzan, the police dog, races to the rescue with Bob Martin (Delaney) in tow and the killer is unmasked in the nick of time. The Lings are cleared of suspicion and peace between the families is restored. [...]

An aging jewel thief is lured out of retirement to crack an impregnable safe loaded with diamonds, only to find himself caught in a web of doublecrosses and intrigue. AKA: THE RIPOFF; THE SQUEEZE.

Young couple’s marriage is slowly picked apart under pressures of poverty, in-laws and parenthood. Produced by David O. Selznick.

Tailspin Tommy goes to Hollywood to be a stunt pilot in a movie, but finds trouble when a scoundrel trades live ammo for the blanks in Tommy’s gun, resulting in a murder. Based on the Hal Forrest comic strip. Dir. George Waggner

Salmon fisherman convinces his girlfriend to put up money for his cannery, then dumps her. He then woos a girl with Native American friends, who can fish year round, hoping she’ll convince them to do illegal off-season fishing for him. Her brother is on to the fisherman, and has a plan to expose him. Dir. Richard Sale