Author Archive: Retro

Josef von Sternberg made his first return to exotic Shanghai since 1932’s Shanghai Express in this baroque conflagration, based on a 1925 play by John Colton that required 30 revisions before it was sufficiently sanitized to pass muster with Hays Office censors. The film takes place in the gambling den of Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), who finds her casino threatened with closing by stuffed shirt English financier Sir Guy Charteris (Walter Huston). Gin Sling knows that the key to keeping her casino open is to dig up some dirt on Sir Guy, and it’s quick in coming. She finds that Sir Guy was compelled to leave China in a hurry some time in the past, stealing his wife’s money and plotting to kill her. Sir Guy ended up abandoning his wife in China and leaving her with an infant daughter. She also finds out that Sir Guy’s grown-up daughter, Poppy (Gene Tierney, is a [...]

After driving off the road, a couple turns on their hazard lights, but another car interprets this as a prearranged signal and a bag full of money is tossed from it into their car, leading to a series of tragic, greed-induced events.

Newill plays the protagonist in pursuit of a group of counterfeiters.

Immigration officer will go to any length to keep illegal Chinese immigrants from entering the US through Mexico, but the owner of a gambling joint is making money smuggling them in. Dir. Burt P. Lynwood

Frank “Bring-Em-Back-Alive” Buck goes deep in the jungles to capture a menagerie of wild animals in this exciting compilation of his adventures. Dir. William C. Ament

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.

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